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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:44:37 -0500
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Fwd: RE: Making GCC 2.95.2 Problems
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Meant to copy this to this list too...


>Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 13:18:44 -0500
>To: "Boyer,Galen" <gboyer AT primix DOT com>
>From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
>Subject: RE: Making GCC 2.95.2 Problems

>At 01:06 PM 2/22/00 , you wrote:
>>I am having a problem with bash and tar and I think it is just a
>>configuration issue.
>>
>>My mounting structure is as follows:
>>Device           Directory           Type        Flags
>>e:               /e                  native      text!=binary
>>d:               /d                  native      text!=binary
>>c:               /c                  native      text!=binary
>>c:\cygnus\cygwin-b20\usr\bin /bin                native      text!=binary
>>c:\cygnus\cygwin-b20 /                   native      text!=binary
>>
>>When I cd into / and execute "tar zxvf
>>e:/gnu/Downloads/gcc-2.95.2-cygb20.tar.gz ", I get the following error:
>>
>>tar (grandchild): Cannot execute remote shell: No such file or directory
>>tar (grandchild): Cannot open archive
>>e:/gnu/Downloads/gcc-2.95.2-cygb20.tar.gz: I/O error
>>tar (grandchild): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>>
>>gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
>>tar: Child returned status 1
>>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>>
>>What have I set up incorrectly in bash?
>
>
>Nothing.  Don't use "e:".  This is NFS syntax for remote paths.  You've 
>mounted e: to /e so use that instead.

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