Subject: RE: (Fwd) Mail Delivery Failure.
From: [email-masked] (Sergey Okhapkin)

9 Aug 1997 05:43:42 -0700
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Original-To: Ken Cantrell <[email-masked]>,
        "'Jeremy Blackman'"
	 <[email-masked]>
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Jeremy Blackman wrote:
> > The command 
> >    tar -cvf t.tar p6_das2bin.c p6_das2bin.h Makefile changelog 
> > works fine, but 
> >   tar -cvf t08081997-10:46.tar p6_das2bin.c p6_das2bin.h Makefile changelog    
> 
> I think this is because DOS/Windows can't use ':' in filenames that way.

Man tar :-) The colon in filename separates remote host name from filename :-) Add
--force-local option to tar command line.

-- 
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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