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 Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:56:51 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: the tar from bootstrap.zip doesn't work Message-ID: <20010312095651.B19712@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <383316185.984384470263.JavaMail.root@web596-mc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <383316185.984384470263.JavaMail.root@web596-mc>; from dipaktc@techie.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:07:50AM -0500 On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:07:50AM -0500, Deepak Shekhar wrote: >When i use this tar with to untar the -src.tar.gz files as below > >tar xvfz c:\temp\latest\ash\ash-20010129-src.tar.gz. >tar (grandchild) Cannot open archive >c:\temp\latest\ash\ash-20010129-src.tar.gz. >tar (grandchild) Error is not recoverable: exiting now >gzip : stdin : unexpected end of file. >cygwin\bin\tar.exe: child returned status 1 >cygwin\bin\tar.exe: error exit delayed due to previous errors. Cygwin emulates UNIX. Use UNIX paths, not MS-DOS paths. tar does not recognize c:\foo as a valid path without some extra options which would be unnecessary if you just used UNIX paths. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple