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Re: Press for Cygwin


On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 04:13:54PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 04:06 PM 8/30/2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 03:58:48PM -0400, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>>>For those of you interested, there is a good article that promotes
>>>Cygwin, at least in the context of its support of the OpenSSH port.
>>>Check it out:
>>>
>>>http://www.win2000mag.com/articles/index.cfm?articleid=21992
>>
>>Nice article except ARGH! they mention using WinZip to unpack the
>>archives.
>
>Yes, I was a little perturbed by that too!
>
>>Does anyone know how we can adapt the archives so that they are not
>>WinZip readable?  Would just converting everything to .bz2 do that?
>
>Seems like it.  WinZip 8.0 won't read a cron-3.0.1-4.tar.bz2 file I
>have.

Hmm.  As it turns out, he is recommending that they download an *old*
version of openssh.  The newer tar files are .bz2 files.

I've just deleted the older openssh .tar.gz file.

cgf

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