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Re: bug w/ 'tar' implementation


Todd Gee wrote:

prompt> tar cf D:/cygwin/home/user/foo.tar *
tar: D\:/cygwin/home/user/foo.tar: Cannot open: I/O error
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

IAFNAB (It's a Feature, Not a Bug).


Tar explicitly documents that archive names of the format "x:y" are treated as "path y on host x". So in your case, tar is trying to contact a host called "D", and failing.

Since this is cygwin tar we're talking about here, use the /cygdrive/d/cygwin/home/user/foo.tar notation (or since, in your case, this is Cygwin's own root, you'll be able to say just "/home/user/foo.tar" and take advantage of the mount points).



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