Re: [Swarm-Support] Help getting started

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Hi,
> what I meant was that it doesn't matter what application achive I 
> download, cygwin doesn't locate it and just gives me the error. It 
> could just be I'm not saving the archive to the correct location on my 
> computer, hence my question. Where does the app. archive need to be 
> for cgywin to locate it?
A shell running with Cygwin has a notion of a current directory.   To 
see where that is, you can run the command:

 cygpath -w `pwd`

..or simply

 pwd

To explain the difference, first note that Cygwin is a software package 
that aims to is provide a Unix like environment.   Unix doesn't use 
backslashes for directory separators, like on Windows, nor does it have 
a notion of `drives'.  Conversely, Windows doesn't have a notion of root 
filesystem.   A windows path like "X:\"  maps to a path like 
"/cygdrive/X" in Cygwin,
where "X" is a Windows drive, typically "C".  Further, there are 
`mounts' to make various Windows drives look like they live as a part of 
a single filesystem.  Type "mount" to see what those are on your Cygwin 
install

The filename you give to `tar' should be the .tar.gz file you download, 
in the current directory as reported above, or else a full Unix-style 
path, of the kind reported by `pwd' as opposed to the kind reported by 
the first command.  For example, if you downloaded to a Windows XP 
Desktop, something like:

tar xzf /cygdrive/c/Documents And Settings/yourName/<filename>

Which will unpack filename into your current directory (again as 
reported by `pwd').

Marcus