building recommended packages on Windows

Maybe you forgot to unpack with the correct tools?
   tar xfz R-2.1.0.tar.gz
should do the trick using tar from the tools provided un Duncan
Murdoch's page, but many other (un)compress tools under Windows cannot
deal with the links (e.g. boot.tgz) provided in the Recommended
packages' subdirectory.

Arggggg. Uwe is of course right. Looking at the Recommended packages
directory, I did notice that some of the links had different icons from
the other link files. I must have unpacked it with cygwin, not with
Duncan's tools as instructed in R-admin. After redoing the unpacking,
everything went fine. Many thanks for spotting my stupidity,

h.
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