Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere To: "John F. Davis" Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 21:38:14 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin Reply-to: gerrit.haase@t-online.de CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3A369AC6.6678.103000D@localhost> In-reply-to: <20001212144941.A13469@skink.net> References: <3A368E31.25559.D1D868@localhost>; from gerrit.haase@t-online.de on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:44:33PM +0100 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) <12 Dec 2000, 14:49 Uhr wars, als John F. Davis folgendes schrub:> < Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin > > Gerrit, > > > And it looks like this, if...???: > > > >>mount c:/progs /progs > > > >>mount: progs: Invalid argument > > > > I screwed up. > I did a > mount c:/progs progs > where I was in /home/davis > and I had already created a prog directory there. > > John O.K., but there is still no explanation, why i got the same error doing: mount c:\ftp /ftp 1. siebenschlaefer@LORELEY /hdd $ mount c:\ftp /ftp mount: /ftp: Invalid argument 2. siebenschlaefer@LORELEY /hdd $ mount c:\ftp ftp mount: ftp: Invalid argument The second case is o.k., argument ftp is invalid, but in first case, not /ftp is invalid, but 'c:ftp' because the quote is a quote and a backslash or slash is missing in this place, so there is the wrong error message, IMHO. -- Gerrit Peter Haase -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com