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From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>
To: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>,
        "'Jon Mountjoy'"
	 <mountjoy AT netcomuk DOT co DOT uk>,
        "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'"
	 <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: tar -C dir option makes dir relative to current dir
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 18:07:08 +0200 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernard Dautrevaux 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 6:05 PM
> To: 'Jon Mountjoy'; cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: RE: tar -C dir option makes dir relative to current dir
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jon Mountjoy [mailto:mountjoy AT netcomuk DOT co DOT uk]
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 4:38 PM
> > To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> > Subject: tar -C dir option makes dir relative to current dir
> > 
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I have read all docs and couldn't solve my problem.  In a 
> > make file I have:
> >  cd foo && tar blah blah | tar -C j:/foobar
> > 
> > Now I run the make file from the l: drive (so l:/foo exists).
> > 
> > The problem is that when the tar on the right gets run, it 
> > tries to place
> > the files in the directory:
> >   /cygdrive/l/foo/j:/foobar
> > which of course isn't a valid directory.
> > 
> > I know I can solve it by not going over another filesystem, 
> > but that isn't
> > ideal.
> > 
> > Any ideas?  (I am running latest net release on W2K.  l: and 
> > j: are mapped
> > drives.  I also tried mounting them, didn't solve a thing. 
> > WinNT Ver 5.0
> > build 2195,
> > Cygwin DLL version i   dll major: 1001     dll minor: 4    
> > dll epoch: 19)
> 
> 
> Did you try "... | tar -C /cygdrive/j/foobar" ?
> 
> The problem here is that for TAR (except if especially 
> changed for cygwin) j:/foobar is a *relative* path name, not 
> an absolute one (it does not start by a '/') :-(
> 
> The cygwin /cygdrive feature is just for that :-)
> 

Just forgot to say, sending faster than thinking :-): you can use cygpath to
automatically convert to/from DOS paths so that you have no problems like
this one.

HTH

	Bernard

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Bernard Dautrevaux
Microprocess Ingenierie
97 bis, rue de Colombes
92400 COURBEVOIE
FRANCE
Tel:	+33 (0) 1 47 68 80 80
Fax:	+33 (0) 1 47 88 97 85
e-mail:	dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com
		b DOT dautrevaux AT usa DOT net
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