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From: Bernard Dautrevaux <Dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com>
To: "'VanRossem, James'" <James DOT VanRossem AT exchange DOT fleetsecurities DOT com>,
        cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: Problem w/ cygwin tar.exe: Unable to tar directories beginnin
	g w/ the letter 'R' in NT 4.0
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 18:31:34 +0100 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: VanRossem, James
> [mailto:James DOT VanRossem AT exchange DOT fleetsecurities DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 6:34 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Problem w/ cygwin tar.exe: Unable to tar directories 
> beginning
> w/ the letter 'R' in NT 4.0
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Basically when i run
> 
> tar -cvfz file.tgz c:david\adv\roy
> I get an error 
> oy: No such file or directory
> 
> Any ideas?  or work arounds?  (besides changing the directory name)
> Thanks all.
> I appreciate your time and help.
> 

I think you should try:

 tar -cvfz file.tgz c:david\\adv\\roy

or simply

 tar -cvfz file.tgz c:david/adv/roy

Don't forget that '\' is special for the shell, and that '\r' means
CARRIAGE-RETURN, which is white space...

BTW, using "c:david" is a bit dangerous on cygwin: either your current
directory is c:/some/thing and you meant c:/some/thing/david/adv/roy, then
just say "david/adv/roy", or say explicitely "c:/david/adv/roy"; cygwin has
no per-drive current directory, as it si an UNIX compatibility layer.

HTH,

	Bernard

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