This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: To use or not to use InstallShield
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: To use or not to use InstallShield
- From: bytor at logicsouth dot com
- Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 13:37:46 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 8 May 1998, The Myers Family wrote:
> Further, a tarball distribution would NOT force every Win95/NT user to wade
> through using tar and gzip. I use WinZip, which rips through .tar.gz
> and .tar.Z archives as easily as plain old ZIP files.
I do find it rather annoying and inconvenient to be forced to reboot to
win95 just to extract the files... They didn't extract very well under
WINE.
+----------------------+----------------------------------------+
| bytor@logicsouth.com | UNIX _is_ user-friendly. It's just not |
| By-Tor@EfNet | ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly. |
+----------------------+----------------------------------------+
-
For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to
"gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".