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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:09:47 -0500
To: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>,
        "cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com" <cygwin AT hotpop DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ...
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At 09:38 AM 5/25/00, Jason Tishler wrote:
>... 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?
>
>Attached is, cygcheck.out, the output from cygcheck -r -s -v.
>
>Thanks,
>Jason
>
>-- 
>Jason Tishler
>Director, Software Engineering       Phone: +1 (732) 264-8770 x235
>Dot Hill Systems Corporation         Fax:   +1 (732) 264-8798
>82 Bethany Road, Suite 7             Email: Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com
>Hazlet, NJ 07730 USA                 WWW:   http://www.dothill.com


Try using \ for the path separators.  Any path with a \ in it is interested
as a Win32 path.  Paths without / are considered POSIX paths I believe (so
the result is tar is looking for a host named "C" using NFS syntax).


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