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Re: tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ...
- To: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>,"cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com" <cygwin at hotpop dot com>
- Subject: Re: tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ...
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:09:47 -0500
At 09:38 AM 5/25/00, Jason Tishler wrote:
>... but other commands like gunzip, ls, etc. do:
>
> $ ls C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
> C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
>
> $ tar -tvzf C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
> tar (grandchild): Cannot open archive C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
> ...
>
> $ gunzip C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
>
> $ ls C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
> C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
>
> $ tar -tvf C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
> tar: Cannot open C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
> ...
>
>Is the above expected behavior?
>
>Attached is, cygcheck.out, the output from cygcheck -r -s -v.
>
>Thanks,
>Jason
>
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>Jason Tishler
>Director, Software Engineering Phone: +1 (732) 264-8770 x235
>Dot Hill Systems Corporation Fax: +1 (732) 264-8798
>82 Bethany Road, Suite 7 Email: Jason.Tishler@dothill.com
>Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA WWW: http://www.dothill.com
Try using \ for the path separators. Any path with a \ in it is interested
as a Win32 path. Paths without / are considered POSIX paths I believe (so
the result is tar is looking for a host named "C" using NFS syntax).
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
(508) 560-1285 - cell phone
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