RE: tar and the symlinks

> -Original Message- > From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 8:09 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: tar and the symlinks > > > At 06:54 AM 7/5/2004, you wrote: > >Hi, > >I (tried to) read the FAQ carefully and did'nt find

tar and the symlinks

Hi, I (tried to) read the FAQ carefully and did'nt find a clue. The problem is for the packaging of applications that install some of their files in a directory that is a link. On NT4 I have a strange behavior: the directory is hidding the link and the files didn't mix. OK, I know that my

WEB SITE: Package List Search

Hi, (apparently for infos on the web site I must write to the cygwin general mailing list) Here is the question: the web page http://cygwin.com/packages/ showing the current package list seems to be generated by a CGI (http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi). Is its source code ava

gettext-0.12.1-3 (+gettext-devel+libgettextpo0+libintl2) question

Hi, I had problems with gettext enabled programs when running Cygwin with a french locale (LANG=fr;LC_ALL=fr;LC_CTYPE=iso-8859-1), all translated messages containing special characters (0x160 to 0x255 : letters with accent, grave,...) where bad: é (small e acute) was displayed 'e (accent+e

stat()/lstat() problem (?)

Hi, here is my question/problem (see the example program below): -// #include #include #include #include static int is_dir(char * dr) { struct stat st; if(stat(dr, &st) == -1) { perror("stat"); return -1; }