From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg Miller To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <36E77ACF.D299B0E1@classic-games.com> References: <19990308134915.8672.rocketmail@send101.yahoomail.com> <36E5C95D.7810@uni-duesseldorf.de> <36e94a87.1879752@mail.weiser.saale-net.de> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00339.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.yQNblUTbfhO3zGtX9b5VdP9vlxQ-91oEvtVoWGayATM@z> Michael Weiser wrote: > Why? Someone who can't do a tar -xzvf will also be unable to use > cygwin after install. It's the old thread which shows up here > regularly and I'm one of those who want tar's or even better rpm's. Except that the above tar command isn't equivalent to a full InstallShield executable. Further, many cygwin users just want to run one or two pieces of UNIX software, not use a full simulation of UNIX. -- http://www.classic-games.com/ President Clinton was acquitted; then again, so was O. J. Simpson. *** NEWBIES: Limit signatures to four lines! No HTML mail or posts! *** -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com