From: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: AW: documentation archive
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:19:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <017501c06aeb$0efc04b0$945d4fcb@workhorse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001220144007.F21461@redhat.com>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Faylor" <cgf@redhat.com>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: AW: documentation archive
<snip>
> >That's it and these are the reasons for suggesting not to use WinZip
> >for unpacking. Especially newbies will not be able to figure what's
> >gone wrong.
>
> I wonder if we can add a bit to our version of tar to make it produce
> files that are unextractable using winzip.
>
> cgf
>
I don't believe winzip understands bzip2.
.tar.bz2 might work
Rob
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-20 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-19 6:21 Earnie Boyd
2000-12-20 11:18 ` Vladimir G Ivanovic
2000-12-20 11:33 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
2000-12-20 11:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2000-12-20 11:40 ` Christopher Faylor
2000-12-20 13:43 ` Corinna Vinschen
2000-12-20 17:19 ` Robert Collins [this message]
2000-12-20 17:29 ` Christopher Faylor
2000-12-20 17:37 ` Robert Collins
2000-12-20 20:01 ` Charles Wilson
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2000-12-21 14:39 Andreas Eibach
2000-12-20 11:39 Earnie Boyd
2000-12-19 6:15 klaus.berndl
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