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Re: Setup, Cygwin or tar problem
- To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
- Subject: Re: Setup, Cygwin or tar problem
- From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 19:36:47 -0400
- CC: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <20000914230512.23321.qmail@web106.yahoomail.com>
> Since setup uses tar and Cygwin
Setup doesn't use cygwin, and it doesn't use the same tar.exe that
you would use. It has a very simple version of tar within it that
it uses.
> doesn't deal with overwriting files properly.
The only bug I know of is that setup can't overwrite a read-only file.
It's a minor bug if someone wants to fix it, but at least it should
complain nice and loudly when it happens.
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