X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Original-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: cygwin@cygwin.com DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 269AF3857C62 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=cs.umass.edu Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=moss@cs.umass.edu Subject: Re: Using cygwin tar from a DOS window To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <092af206-4d4a-28d9-ccdf-bdf2eafe5edd@obj-sys.com> <28a64f9a-3ab1-1c44-2931-967bd39f3bbf@obj-sys.com> From: Eliot Moss Message-ID: <76084aec-81d3-e472-4562-bca3734d2f2b@cs.umass.edu> Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 13:28:58 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <28a64f9a-3ab1-1c44-2931-967bd39f3bbf@obj-sys.com> Content-Language: en-US X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, BODY_8BITS, JMQ_SPF_NEUTRAL, KAM_DMARC_STATUS, NICE_REPLY_A, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" Errors-To: cygwin-bounces@cygwin.com Sender: "Cygwin" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by delorie.com id 082HTT7V022325 On 9/2/2020 1:00 PM, Douglas Coup wrote: > > On 9/2/2020 12:53 PM, Bill Stewart wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 8:58 AM Douglas Coup wrote: >> >> But if I use tar from a DOS window ... >> Surely you don't mean DOS? DOS doesn't exist in Windows any more (unless >> you are using an emulator like DosBox or a VM). >> >> Do you mean a cmd.exe console window? (cmd.exe is a Windows console-mode >> program that, despite appearances, is not "DOS." DOS was a real-mode >> single-tasking operating system.) >> >> Bill >> -- >> Problem reports:      https://cygwin.com/problems.html >> FAQ:                  https://cygwin.com/faq/ >> Documentation:        https://cygwin.com/docs.html >> Unsubscribe info:     https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > Yes, a cmd.exe console window. Hardly the point :-) ... But I think your problem may be that the Cygwin dlls need to be on the search path, and you're hoping that none of them have names that are the same as ones earlier on the path ... Best - Eliot Moss -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple