From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 62996 invoked by alias); 26 Nov 2018 20:32:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 62973 invoked by uid 89); 26 Nov 2018 20:32:16 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=gilbert, H*c:alternative X-HELO: mail-it1-f180.google.com Received: from mail-it1-f180.google.com (HELO mail-it1-f180.google.com) (209.85.166.180) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:32:14 +0000 Received: by mail-it1-f180.google.com with SMTP id i7so30546731iti.2 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:32:14 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 2002:a4f:808d:0:0:0:0:0 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:32:12 -0800 (PST) From: "Gilbert St. Firmin" Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:32:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: tar cygwin64/ from old to new computer? To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SW-Source: 2018-11/txt/msg00201.txt.bz2 On: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:08:35 +0100, Hans-Bernhard Br=C3=B6ker wrote: You're overlooking a chicken-and-egg problem there: your new computer has no 'tar' to unpack that file. Could the native Windows version of 7-zip be used on both old and new computers? Also, perhaps the Windows Image Format (WIM) could be used instead, presuming UUIDs would not be an issue if both computers shared identical machine names and accounts. Just curious. Gilbert P. St. Firmin -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple