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RE: tar 1.15.91 doesn't support mixed mode paths
- From: "Eric Johanson" <epj at newpointtech dot com>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:35:22 -0400
- Subject: RE: tar 1.15.91 doesn't support mixed mode paths
tar 1.15.91 does not support the use of mixed-mode paths via the "f"
command-line option. for example, if you run the command:
tar tvf c:/temp/myfile.tar
then you get the following error message from tar:
d: Unknown Host
tar: c\:/temp/myfile.tar: Cannot open: Input/Output error
ar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar is one of the few commands with a problem like this. it would be
really nice to see it fixed. based on the error message "d: Unknown
Host", it sounds like tar is trying to interpret the colon as a
node-name seperator, similar to the way that "rcp" does. is that a
feature of tar? i didn't see anything like that in the documentation
for tar but i could have missed it.
-Eric Johanson
Newpoint Technologies, Inc.