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RE: problems...
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- To: "'cygwin-xfree at xfree dot cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-xfree at xfree dot cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 10:13:56 -0500
- Subject: RE: problems...
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> From: John Morgan [mailto:jcmst56+@pitt.edu]
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 10:10 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@xfree.cygwin.com
> Subject: problems...
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> While trying to install xfree86 for cygwin, while running the
> Xinstall.sh script I get an error with extract.exe. It says
> that the file is bad and is being renamed. I have tried
> copies of extract.exe.bz2 from most of the mirror sites and
> the same problem occurs. I am running cygwin on a Windows
> 2000 Professional Box. Is there any reason why this would occur.
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Windows2000 and NT 4 may have a Microsoft version of extract.exe. If it is
in your PATH, it can give errors. How about try setting path from bash
shell
export PATH=.:$PATH
Suhaib
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