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Re: tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ...
- To: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>, Cygwin <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ...
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 07:55:20 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com> wrote:
> .... but other commands like gunzip, ls, etc. do:
>
> $ ls C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
> C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
>
> $ tar -tvzf C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
> tar (grandchild): Cannot open archive C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
> ...
>
> $ gunzip C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
>
> $ ls C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
> C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
>
> $ tar -tvf C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
> tar: Cannot open C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
> ...
>
What does `type -a tar' return? BTW, I tried this and it didn't work for me
either but your reported results are different.
Cheers,
=====
---
Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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