For what it's worth, this particular issue is already mentioned
at the bottom of the Cygwin download page:

  http://www.cygwin.com/download.html

Perhaps that wording could be borrowed?

I do realize that few Cygwin users would have ever read this page
though, since there is a setup.exe that does things "for" you...

I also don't have any clue where this tidbit belongs within
curl.haxx.se, since it's a Cygwin only problem (neither the
normal zip source archive nor the Win32 binaries are affected
by this issue).

- Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Stenberg [mailto:daniel_at_haxx.se]
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 5:37 PM

On Tue, 27 May 2003, David Byron wrote:

> I tried extracting the tar file with tar, and there is a difference in the
> test files...and magically, the tests all pass.
>
> I've definitely been bitten by this before, and should know better. I
> remember vaguely seeing a note about this on the curl site, but not sure
> where. I don't see one on the download page now, which might be a good
> place, or perhaps the FAQ.

If you have any suggested wording for this case, I'm all ears.

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Received on 2003-05-28