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From:	Sean Mitchell <mitchell AT chrs DOT com>
To:	Terrell Mitchell <terrellm AT usit DOT net>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject:	RE: problem with tar
Date:	Thu, 26 Aug 1999 11:50:14 -0400
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I think you're specifying your file with the DOS style drive letter and a
colon sort of like

tar xfz D:\file.tar.gz

instead of the Cygwin/UNIX style of

tar xfz //d/file.tar.gz 

Tar sees the d:\{etc} as specifying a remote machine called d.

Cheers,

Sean


-----Original Message-----
From: Terrell Mitchell [mailto:terrellm AT usit DOT net]
Sent: Thursday, August 26, 1999 11:41 AM
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: problem with tar


I have set up cygwin b20 on my windows 98 machine for use with perl and
building cpan modules.
When I try to run tar to extract files from an archive that is not in the
current directory I get an error message

cannot execute remote shell:  no such file
cannot open "file name": I/O error
error is not recoverable: exiting now

I have no idea what is wrong with the configuration.

I have tried with COMMAND.COM, 4DOS , 4NT and BASH as the shells.
Any help or pointers would be appreciated.

Thank You
Terrell


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