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Re: AW: documentation archive


----- 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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