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authorEli Zaretskii <[email protected]>2013-02-02 10:23:52 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii <[email protected]>2013-02-02 10:23:52 +0200
commit970b321fd0033d883243a1240494ff9471435a34 (patch)
treec5c9164edd52aaf12971da2df342d93b7a5b3c45 /nt
parent13841bfcc20881a268e3c853f65312390c589700 (diff)
Update nt/INSTALL.
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diff --git a/nt/INSTALL b/nt/INSTALL
index 487e5ec0bf..0c4b50f0c2 100644
--- a/nt/INSTALL
+++ b/nt/INSTALL
@@ -110,12 +110,14 @@
WinZip is known to create some subtle and hard to debug problems,
such as converting files to DOS CR-LF format, not creating empty
directories, etc. We suggest to use djtarnt.exe from the GNU FTP
- site.
+ site. For modern formats, such as .tar.xz, we suggest bsdtar.exe
+ from the libarchive package; its precompiled Windows binaries are
+ available from this site:
+
+ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
- In addition to this file, you should also read INSTALL.BZR in the
- parent directory, and make sure that you have a version of
- "touch.exe" in your path, and that it will create files that do not
- yet exist.
+ In addition to this file, if you build a development snapshot, you
+ should also read INSTALL.BZR in the parent directory.
* Supported development environments