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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 12:03:05 -0400
To: Cygwin <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: Re: tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ...
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In-Reply-To: <392D3AF0.3E43D3F0@dothill.com>; from Jason.Tishler@dothill.com on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:38:40AM -0400

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:38:40AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 10:38:40 -0400
>From: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
>Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corporation
>To: Cygwin <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
>Subject: tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ...
>
>... but other commands like gunzip, ls, etc. do:
>
>    $ ls C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
>    C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
>
>    $ tar -tvzf C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
>    tar (grandchild): Cannot open archive C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
>    ...
>
>    $ gunzip C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
>
>    $ ls C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
>    C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
>
>    $ tar -tvf C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
>    tar: Cannot open C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
>    ...
>
>Is the above expected behavior?

Yes.  Tar is a port of a unix program.  A colon in a pathname indicates
that tar should access a remote host named 'c'.

Check tar's help output for ways around this.  Look for the word 'colon'.

cgf

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