Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: From: "Anthony Massa" To: "Max Bowsher" , Subject: RE: Tar Problems Under Cygwin Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 07:30:38 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <001301c2491e$03db5eb0$0100a8c0@wdg.uk.ibm.com> Is /cygdrive/f/ (or whatever drive letter) a standard when Cygwin is installed? I am using these instructions for others that will install Cygwin and I want to make sure I give them the proper information on how to un-tar the file. In other words, is the mount point /cygdrive/f/ going to be something different on another system? Or do all drives install the same way - with the same mount points - if they are installed from the same binaries? Or is it best to do a mount to see how the drive is mounted before trying to un-tar the file? Thanks for the fast responses. > -----Original Message----- > From: Max Bowsher [mailto:maxb@ukf.net] > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 7:21 AM > To: amassa@san.rr.com; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: Tar Problems Under Cygwin > > > Anthony Massa wrote: > > ... I tried to un-tar the > > file using the command: > > > > $ tar xjvf f:/i386rdwr.tar.bz2 > > > > I get the following output error message: > > > > f: unknown host > > tar (child): f\:/i386rdwr.tar.bz2: Cannot open: I/O error > > f is being interpreted as a remote computer name. Specify the file as: > /cygdrive/f/i386rdwr.tar.bz2 > > Max. > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/