[tex-live] Install-TL (Win/32) conceals errors at first sight

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Tue Nov 18 15:16:52 CET 2008



Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> 
> 
> Norbert Preining wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
>>>> untarring F:\TeX\Live\2008\temp\dingbat.tar failed, please retry
>>
>> We will investigate that. Before this triggered a die, after some
>> refactoring it didn't. We will check for a better behaviour.
> 
> Many thanks, Norbert : in that case, even when you identify
> the underlying cause of the problem of TAR/read-only, it

That's easy: tar is right, winzip is wrong. The files are stored
read-only in the archive (that is likely a mistake though).

Best wishes,
Taco


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