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Re: tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ...
- To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Subject: Re: tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ...
- From: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:21:02 -0400
- Cc: "cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com" <cygwin at hotpop dot com>
- Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corporation
- References: <4.3.1.2.20000525110636.00e6c210@pop.ma.ultranet.com>
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
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