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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 12:24:33 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Rankin <rick_rankin AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problem w/ cygwin tar.exe: Unable to tar directories beginnin g w/ the letter 'R' in NT 4.0
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When I run "c:\cygwin\bin\echo d:\tmp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp"
from a cmd.exe prompt, the output is

d:      mp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp

It appears that somewhere along the line, \t in "d:\tmp\..." is being converted
to a tab character.

Rick
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--- Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:58:21PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
> wrote:
> >No, its not Cygwin.  If it were, other tools with this same path would have
> >the same problem.  They don't.  Also note that the problem is with 1
> >backslash:
> >
> >D:\tmp\AshishCode>tar cvf file.tgz
> d:\tmp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp
> >
> >tar: Cannot add file d: mp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp: No such
> file or directory
> >tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> >
> >This bug is in tar.
> 
> What does cygwin's echo do with this?  I'm not close to a Windows machine
> right now.
> 
> If you type:
> 
> c:\>c:\cygwin\bin\echo d:\tmp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp
> 
> what is output?
> 
> It's possible that cygwin's globbing is not correctly interpreting d:\ as a
> path spec.  It tries to be clever about doing the right thing with dos
> filespecs
> but it could still be broken.
> 
> cgf
> 
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