X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <461E51C4.8040908@byu.net> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 09:35:32 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.10) Gecko/20070221 Thunderbird/1.5.0.10 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com, CheneyC@WSDOT.WA.GOV Subject: Re: bash: tar: command not found References: <461D6DBB.1000301@cygwin.com> <20070412004949.GA18865@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Cheney, Christian on 4/12/2007 9:21 AM: >>> How about running /usr/bin/tar? Sounds like you just don't have the >>> PATH set up correctly? > Unfortunately, there is nothing in the /usr/bin/ directory. Thanks, > anyhew. In a default cygwin install, there is nothing in Windows equivalent to the /usr/bin directory, because cygwin sets up a mount so that /usr/bin points to the same place as /bin. Are you trying to use tar in a Windows cmd shell, or in bash? Either way, have you checked that your PATH is correct? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGHlHD84KuGfSFAYARAqcFAKChq9P8w1Q4DqlLkVMn+kauGpbbjwCdGYUM f/hG/L+uUG0Vrb9cAmJOUVY= =spRZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/