problems with extract.exe

[Suhaib Siddiqi]

Check you Cygwin installation. It does not look like a complete
installation?  Uname seems to be missing???  Are you sure you installed on a
binary mounted (UNIX mode) Cygwin disk?  

I am sure your Cygwin installation is bad.  Exctract.exe is not bad.

Suhaib

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Emslie [ mailto:stephenemslie@hotmail.com ]
> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 5:29 PM
> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
> Subject: problems with extract.exe
> 
> extract.exe doesn't work properly, renaming it to 'extract.exe.bad'.
> That's part of the error I get when I run ./Xinstall.sh. I don't think
> I've
> corrupted the extract.exe.bz2 file because I've tried the 'save target
> as'
> method of downloading it and I get the same problem... any thoughts?
> 
> 
> ----
> output from ./Xinstall.sh :
> ----
> uname: not found
> uname: not found
> uname reports '' version '', architecture ''.
> 
> chmod: changing permissions of `extract': No such file or directory
> head: not found
> extract doesn't work properly, renaming it to 'extract.bad'
> mv: preserving times for `extract.bad': No such file or directory
> mv: cannot unlink `extract': No such file or directory
> mv: cannot remove `extract': No such file or directory
> head: not found
> extract.exe doesn't work properly, renaming it to
> 'extract.exe.bad'
> 
> The versions of 'extract' and 'extract.exe' you have do not run'
> correctly.  Make sure that you have downloaded the correct
> binaries for your system.  To find out which is correct,
> run 'sh ./Xinstall.sh -check'.
> 
> When you have corrected the problem, please re-run 'sh ./Xinstall.sh'
> to proceed with the installation.
> ---
> 
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