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 Message-Id: <200012132152.NAA03275@capella.ssd.hal.com> Subject: Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:52:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20001213094802.A10906@redhat.com> from "Christopher Faylor" at Dec 13, 2000 09:48:02 AM From: "J. J. Farrell" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > From: Christopher Faylor > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 07:53:53AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > > >$ mount c:\ftp /ftp > >mount: /ftp: Invalid argument > > If you do not specify a full path spec, you'll get an "invalid argument" > error message. > > I don't know why you are having such a hard time wrapping your brain around > that fact, but that's ok. I have nothing more to add to this thread. I think Gerrit understands that fact, but is having trouble seeing why mount doesn't complain about an apparently invalid argument (c:\ftp) but does complain about one which is apparently valid (/ftp). -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com