According to Eric Blake : > In other words, to use this, you MUST install a > recent cygwin snapshot (20060329 or later), or wait for cygwin-1.5.20 to > be released. Cygwin 1.5.20 is out but tar-1.15.90-1 is yet in test section. Are there special reasons for this to happen? Cheers, Angelo. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/