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Eric Blake wrote:
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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.


And indeed there is no need to patch 'tar' since it supports the
'--force-local' flag.  Tom, I suggest you take a read through the
'tar' man page if you need further details.


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