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Re: tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ...
- To: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>
- Subject: Re: tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ...
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:25:17 -0500
- Cc: "cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com" <cygwin at hotpop dot com>
- References: <4.3.1.2.20000525110636.00e6c210@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
At 10:21 AM 5/25/00, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Larry,
>
>"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> > Try using \ for the path separators. Any path with a \ in it is interested
> > as a Win32 path. Paths without / are considered POSIX paths I believe (so
> > the result is tar is looking for a host named "C" using NFS syntax).
>
>Before posting, I had already tried the following:
>
> $ tar -tvzf 'C:\temp\make-3.79.tar.gz'
> tar (grandchild): Cannot open archive C:\temp\make-3.79.tar.gz
> ...
>
>Thanks,
>Jason
Could be a tar issue with NFS paths then (though that's only a guess)...
Larry
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