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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:10:38 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: Program to "talk" to serial port?
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:56:31PM -0400, Reid Thompson wrote:
>It appears that the main issue is the directory in the source tar file 
>named aux.

Use a managed mount.  Create an empty directory c:/foo and

mount -o managed c:/foo /foo

cd /foo
tar xf whatever

you will then be able to extract files like "aux", "com1", etc.

cgf

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