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From: "Malcolm Boekhoff" <Malcolm.Boekhoff@actfs.co.uk>
To: "Cygwin News Group" <cygwin@sources.redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Not finding hidden files in root directory
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 18:11:31 -0000

I wonder if this has anything to do with my problem of "tar xvzf
/d/zip/pine4.21.tar-2.gz" failing because the files are listed as starting with
"./" in the archive?  I can unpack, e.g. cdrecord-1.9.tar.gz with no problem -
they aren't listed as starting with "./".


> "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> >
> > Looks like a general problem, although I'm not sure exactly where its from.
> > Try:
> >
> > cd /
> > touch .a
> >
> > and you'll see what I mean.  But:
> >
> > cd ~
> > touch /.a
> >
> > works fine.  ls -a / works without complaint as well.
>
> Yep. Seems to be an error in the path conversion routines. I'm just
> investigating...




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