Questions about Cygwin's "jar" command

[Larry Hall]

David M. Karr wrote:

> A few updates to Cygwin ago (both at work and home), I noticed that there is
> now a "jar" executable in "/usr/bin".  I see from the "-V" option that it is
> something called "fastjar".  When I use it for viewing jar contents, it works
> just as well as the "jar" from my Java distribution.  However, when I use it to
> extract files from a jar, it often fails after extracting the first couple of
> files (I can't remember the error messages right now).  I end up having to
> manually specify the path to the "jar" in my Java distribution, or use Winzip.
> 
> Short of fixing these problems in the Cygwin "jar", what's the correct way to
> remove it?  


rm /usr/bin/jar.exe


>It doesn't appear to be in a separate Cygwin package, so I guess I
> can't use Cygwin setup to "uninstall" it.  


Right, unless you don't want gcc, which is the package it comes with.


>I tried removing "/usr/bin/jar", but
> "rm" says "No such file or directory".


See above.


> If it matters, I'm on Cygwin 1.3.14 at home, and a newer release at work.  I
> see this problem in both places.


Not AFAICS.



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