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Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin
- To: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit dot haase at t-online dot de>
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:53:53 +0100
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <3A368E31.25559.D1D868@localhost>; from gerrit.haase@t-online.de on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:44:33PM +0100
- Reply-to: gerrit dot haase at t-online dot de
<12 Dec 2000, 15:58 Uhr wars, als Christopher Faylor folgendes schrub:>
< Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cy >
> In that case you were using backslashes in bash. For the 100000000000000000000th
> time: a backslash is a quoting character in UNIX shells. If you want to use
> it you have to double it up. So you either have to:
>
> bash$ mount d:\\ftproot /ftproot
>
> or
>
> bash$ mount d:/ftproot /ftproot
>
> cgf
Repetition from my former email!
O.K., but there is still no explanation, why i got this error doing:
mount c:\ftp /ftp
1.
siebenschlaefer@LORELEY /hdd
$ mount c:\ftp /ftp
mount: /ftp: Invalid argument
2.
siebenschlaefer@LORELEY /hdd
$ mount c:\ftp ftp
mount: ftp: Invalid argument
The second case is o.k., argument ftp is invalid, but in first case,
not /ftp is invalid, but 'c:ftp' because the quote is a quote and a
backslash or slash is missing in this place, so there is the wrong
error message, IMHO.
--
Gerrit Peter Haase
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