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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:21:02 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com>
Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corporation
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To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
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Subject: Re: tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ...
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Larry,

"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> 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).

Before posting, I had already tried the following:

    $ tar -tvzf 'C:\temp\make-3.79.tar.gz'
    tar (grandchild): Cannot open archive C:\temp\make-3.79.tar.gz
    ...

Thanks,
Jason

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