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


On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:18:29PM -0800, Lothan wrote:
>> From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
>> [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 1:16 PM
>> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
>> Subject: Re: Problem w/ cygwin tar.exe: Unable to tar directories
>> beginnin g w/ the letter 'R' in NT 4.0
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:34:37PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK
>> Partners, Inc) wrote:
>> >>The easiest way to check is to write a simple c program which
>> displays its
>> >>arguments.  This will bypass any echo trickery.
>> >
>> >Right.  Looks like its not globbing trickery.  A small program prints
>> >out the arguments exactly as they're typed.  However, the same trickery
>> >that echo uses appears to be what's affecting tar.  So far I've noticed
>> >"bad" behavior in both with \t, \r, and \n.  In echo, this is a
>> >"feature" I'm sure but in tar, I'd say its a bug.  I'm back to thinking
>> >the issue is with tar...
>>
>> Yep.  I agree.
>
>Now I'm really curious why I'm not seeing this odd behavior on my system.
>The only changes I've made to the stock release of cygwin is that I dumped
>sh-utils 1.16 in favor of sh-utils 2.0.

Um.  Doesn't echo come from sh-utils?

cgf

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