Re: bug w/ 'tar' implementation

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:05:00AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>At 10:33 2003-05-07, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 10:27:57AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>>> ...
>>>
>>>Most Cygwin apps don't tolerate Windows path names (exceptions exist).
>>>Use the provided "cygpath" command to translate between the various
>>>path name syntaxes of Cygwin (POSIX) and Windows.
>>
>>True, but this isn't even that issue, however.  "man tar" is informative
>>on how tar treats the files with colons which are arguments to -f or
>>--file.
>
>Man tar? I have all of Cygwin installed, but there's no man page for "tar."

Ok.  I checked this on linux not cygwin and cygwin doesn't have a man page.
Apologies if I confused anyone.  The man page is much clearer than the info
file.

FWIW, this has been discussed in this mailing list on many occasions.  A
mailing list search would unearth me pointing to the documentation in
the past and probably people providing specific help as well.

cgf

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