Local setup fails (even 1.30)

Thu Apr 27 03:43:00 GMT 2000

Hello,
I have had exactly the same problem and changed the source code line
from setup.c 
 sprintf (buffer, "tar xvfUz \"%s\"", path);
into
 sprintf (buffer, "tar.exe xvfUz \"%s\"", path);
This solved my problem.
Regards,
Fritz
> installing the new Cygwin 1.1.0 from a local directory on my notebook
(German NT4 / SP5), 
> the installation fails completely. Setup creates several directories in
the chosen root 
> (c:\ or anything else), finds the *.tar.gz files, but fails to extract any
of the tar
> files (although claiming "No Error")! I confimed this behavior on my
office running
> English (UK) NT4 / SP3.

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