cygwin on windows.net, what?

The question of cygwin, or something like it on windows.net, or whatever you want to call it, is not such a stupid question. It might be a stupid question on *this* mailing lists. So please forgive me for an off-topic discussion, if I also congratulate the people working on CYGWIN for the high qual

here is a patch for gnu tar incremental backup (-g) or (--listed-incremental)

Here is a fix for gnu tar incremental backup feature for the most recent cygwin that uses a 64-bit value for the type ion_t This was done against the sources in release/tar/tar-1.13.25-3-src.tar.bz2 I am a fair C programmer but have no skill in GNU Autoconfig, so I did not attempt to define the

Re: cygwin dll makes gnu tar think that directories have been renamed?

Sorry about that test script, it tests all sorts of incremental backup features. Here is one that just tests the base "Directory has been renamed" issue. rm -f /tmp/new.list tar --listed-incremental=/tmp/new.list --create --file=file1.tar /etc cp /tmp/new.list /tmp/new.list-old tar --listed-increm

cygwin dll makes gnu tar think that directories have been renamed?

The test-gnu-tar-inc.sh file tests the --listed-incremental backup and restore features of gnu tar. These features worked well in a previous version of CYGWIN. Shame on me for not being able to tell you which one, but it was one available in August 2003 but before September 2003, when I upgraded a