Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/02/07/10:59:07
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:18:29PM -0800, Lothan wrote:
>> From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
>> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com]On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 1:16 PM
>> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT 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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