Re: Problem w/ cygwin tar.exe: Unable to tar directories beginning w/ the letter 'R' in NT 4.0

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 12:39 PM 2/6/2001, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>At 12:34 PM 2/6/2001, VanRossem, James wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Basically when i run
> >
> >tar -cvfz file.tgz c:david\adv\roy
> >I get an error 
> >oy: No such file or directory
> >
> >Any ideas?  or work arounds?  (besides changing the directory name)
> >Thanks all.
> >I appreciate your time and help.
>
>Yes, you need to be careful and check documentation.  First, I suspect that
>you're invoking this from sh/bash.  If so, '\' is an escape character so you
>need to quote it or double it to get it interpreted correctly.  Also, tar 
>interprets "c" as a host, since it precedes ":" (see ter --help).  You can 
>use /cygdrive/c/david/adv/roy instead to avoid this issue.

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