Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 12:03:05 -0400 To: Cygwin Subject: Re: tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ... Message-ID: <20000525120305.D1330@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: Cygwin References: <392D3AF0.3E43D3F0@dothill.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <392D3AF0.3E43D3F0@dothill.com>; from Jason.Tishler@dothill.com on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:38:40AM -0400 On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:38:40AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: >Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:38:40 -0400 >From: Jason Tishler >Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corporation >To: Cygwin >Subject: tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ... > >... but other commands like gunzip, ls, etc. do: > > $ ls C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz > C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz > > $ tar -tvzf C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz > tar (grandchild): Cannot open archive C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz > ... > > $ gunzip C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz > > $ ls C:/temp/make-3.79.tar > C:/temp/make-3.79.tar > > $ tar -tvf C:/temp/make-3.79.tar > tar: Cannot open C:/temp/make-3.79.tar > ... > >Is the above expected behavior? Yes. Tar is a port of a unix program. A colon in a pathname indicates that tar should access a remote host named 'c'. Check tar's help output for ways around this. Look for the word 'colon'. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com