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From:	Soren A <soren_andersen AT fastmail DOT fm>
Newsgroups:	gmane.os.cygwin
Subject:	Re: Tar Problems Under Cygwin
Date:	Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:26:48 +0000 (UTC)
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"Anthony Massa" <amassa AT san DOT rr DOT com> wrote around 21 Aug 2002 
news:NBBBJIKCMKBJFEAHMGMAGECDEHAA DOT amassa AT san DOT rr DOT com about %s:

> This file was then placed on a CD-ROM.  When I tried to un-tar the file
> using the command:
> 
> $ tar xjvf f:/i386rdwr.tar.bz2
> 
> I get the following output error message:
> 
> f: unknown host
> tar (child): f\:/i386rdwr.tar.bz2: Cannot open: I/O error
> tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now

You've received advice to mess with your mounts in order to fix a
problem known to happen with the tar that's packaged with Cygwin. That's
fine, but TMTOWTDI: just set the appropriate default options for tar
that (IMHO) make sense on an average Win32 system: 

TAR_OPTIONS=--force-local

Somewhere in your bash start-up files (~/.bashrc). Then pass ordinary
windows-style paths to tar freely. It won't choke on them anymore. 

  HTH,
   Soren A



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