From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: any luck with tar on a ZIP drive?
25 Sep 1997 11:29:38 -0700
Message-ID: <01BCCA00.9C3D8720.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos>
To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "'Chuck Bogorad'"
	 <chuck AT hysteria DOT spb DOT ru>

Chuck Bogorad wrote:
> 
> /dev/zip *" reports "tar: Cannot open /dev/zip: Permission denied". "tar cf 
> \\\\.\\e: *" causes a trap. i use b18 + latest Sergey's coolview. 

Tar treats a colon in filename as a host name delimiter. Try --force-local option.

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