2008-05-02 22:31:31 UTC
This was never made very clear to me but apparently you have to run it in a Cygwin window.
Of course, that doesn't work.
You also have to create a dummy file (also called a "no-op") called "#.exe" in the
Windows System Directory (it is where your system32 directory resides, underneath the WinNT directory in Win2000, if I remember.
Then you have to add a line to the the top of the batch file (and if you use Word or another formatting text editor IT WILL RUIN THE FILE by adding format codes) using a pure ASCII editor. The line to add is
#! c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c
then you save the file e.g. c:\unixmail-bin-0.6.bat
then you run it in the Cygwin windows at the $ prompt
$ c:/unixmail-bin-0.6.bat
NOTE WELL the FORWARD slash, not backslash.
Then...it doesn't work. I get "this does not look like a tar archive" error.
So good luck. I've posted a question about this but don't hold out much luck. Anything that might be helpful seems to have "expired" off the NET years ago.
