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 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: bug w/ 'tar' implementation Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 10:31:51 -0700 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3EB94307.5080604@cotagesoft.com> References: <20030507170217.39082.qmail@web12103.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <20030507170217.39082.qmail@web12103.mail.yahoo.com> Todd Gee wrote: > prompt> tar cf D:/cygwin/home/user/foo.tar * > tar: D\:/cygwin/home/user/foo.tar: Cannot open: I/O error > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now IAFNAB (It's a Feature, Not a Bug). Tar explicitly documents that archive names of the format "x:y" are treated as "path y on host x". So in your case, tar is trying to contact a host called "D", and failing. Since this is cygwin tar we're talking about here, use the /cygdrive/d/cygwin/home/user/foo.tar notation (or since, in your case, this is Cygwin's own root, you'll be able to say just "/home/user/foo.tar" and take advantage of the mount points). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/