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>>
>>tar cvf test.tar /cygdrive/c/test is nice to work.
>>
>>howver, can I mount /cygdrive/c as c:/ and run as
>>tar cvf test.tar c:/test ?
>>
>>I have tar.exe djgpp and it works this way.
>
>
>djgpp is for the DOS world.  If that's what you really want, you're better
>off using djgpp.  But to your question, there is no need to use mount in 
>the
>way you describe.  '/cygdrive/c' is a built-in mount to map 'c:' into POSIX
>paths.  If you're hung up on DOS paths, you can try'em but if you have
>problems that you don't get using the POSIX paths, then you're better
>off using 'cygpath' to convert DOS->POSIX.  For example:
>
>   cygpath -u c:/test
>
>As far as Cygwin (and the vast majority of the underlying Win32 functions
>accepting paths), \ and / are synonymous.

thanks for your hep.

I don't undersand why "ls c:/test" works but not for
"tar cvf test.tar c:/test"

Tom

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