Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-ID: <19990826171316.14215.rocketmail@web124.yahoomail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 10:13:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd@yahoo.com Subject: Re: problem with tar To: Terrell Mitchell , cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- Terrell Mitchell wrote: > I have set up cygwin b20 on my windows 98 machine for use with perl and > building cpan modules. > When I try to run tar to extract files from an archive that is not in the > current directory I get an error message > > cannot execute remote shell: no such file > cannot open "file name": I/O error > error is not recoverable: exiting now > > I have no idea what is wrong with the configuration. > > I have tried with COMMAND.COM, 4DOS , 4NT and BASH as the shells. > Any help or pointers would be appreciated. It is most likely that you've environment problems. Please, read my webpage and then if you still have problems send a plain text output of `cygcheck -s -v -r'. === Earnie Boyd Newbies, please visit (If you respond to the list, then please don't cc me) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com