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According to Tom Lee on 9/30/2006 11:24 PM:
> 
> I don't undersand why "ls c:/test" works but not for
> "tar cvf test.tar c:/test"

Because ls does not parse its arguments, but upstream tar treats c:/test
as meaning open the file /test on the remote machine named c; and because
I'm not in the mood to patch either ls or tar from what the upstream
packages provide.  For cygwin programs in general, POSIX paths will work,
but you are lucky if DOS paths happen to work, since the point of cygwin
is to provide a Linux emulation (aka POSIX-like behavior), and DOS paths
are not supported in Linux.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
volunteer cygwin coreutils/tar maintainer
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