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From: Stephan Mueller <Stephan.Mueller@microsoft.com>
To: Reinier Post <rp@win.tue.nl>, "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:35:06 +0000
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Reinier Post writes:
"   curl ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/calcoo/calcoo_1.3.16.orig.=
tar.gz
" | tar zxvf -
"
" hangs after printing the line
"
"   calcoo-1.3.16/src/aux.c
"
" This happens on two different i386 systems, both running an up to date Cy=
gwin
" on an up to date Windows XP with the latest security patches applied.
" The file system is NTFS.

The problem is likely related to the fact that Windows won't allow creation=
 of files with names like aux and nul and con (among others) as these are r=
eserved device names.

Cygwin 'Managed Mounts' should help.

stephan();



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