gnuwin32_B19_tar4bzip2.tgz -------------- - what is it? binaries of bzip2 and tar with bzip2 support - system built on win95b cygwin32 B19.1+ - preliminaries tar vzxf bzip2-0.1pl2.tar.gz apply the tar patch to tar-1.12 from the cdk src - configure no configure script open bzip2.c and make sure these macros are defined like this. /*-- Generic 32-bit Unix. Also works on 64-bit Unix boxes. --*/ #define BZ_UNIX 1 /*-- Win32, as seen by Jacob Navia's excellent port of (Chris Fraser & David Hanson)'s excellent lcc compiler. --*/ #define BZ_LCCWIN32 0 - make just type make - make install copy the binaries to your $PATH ln -s bzip2.exe bunzip2 - notes bzip2 is 10-50% more compressive on uncompressed data than zip or gzip. already compressed data can grow in size - package availability http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/ http://www.digistar.com/bzip2/index.html http://www.digistar.com/bzip2/bzip2-0.1pl2.tar.gz - contributed by - jeffdbREMOVETHIS@netzone.com