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Re: setup.exe & .tbz / .tgz
- To: Cygwin Apps List <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: setup.exe & .tbz / .tgz
- From: Warren Young <warren at etr-usa dot com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 23:59:27 -0600
- Organization: -ENOENT
- References: <3BCB156D.23119.9B1AE6@localhost>
"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
>
> is setup.exe able to recognize packages
> with .tbz as bzip2 compressed and .tgz
> as gzip compresed?
It will eventually. I'm working [slowly] on a patch that will make
setup.exe suss the package type from the magic numbers in the file
instead of using the file name to figure it out.
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