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From: "Lothan" <lothan AT newsguy DOT com>
To: "Larry Hall \(RFK Partners, Inc\)" <lhall AT rfk 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 22:45:26 -0800
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> From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com]On Behalf Of Larry Hall (RFK
> Partners, Inc)
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 12:12 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin 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
>
>
> At 03:08 PM 2/6/2001, Christopher Faylor 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.
>
>
> D:\tmp>d:\usr\bin\echo d:\tmp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp
> d:      mp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp
>
> OK, you got me.  It looks like this is a Cygwin issue.  Interesting that
> things like cat and ls don't have a problem here...

Interesting, because this is not what I'm getting. If I type it from cmd.exe
in Windows 2000 I get exactly what I expect:

C:\>c:\cygwin\bin\echo d:\tmp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp
d:\tmp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp

One funny question, though... why is your echo in d:\usr\bin and mine (1.1.8
latest) is in \cygwin\bin? My \cygwin\usr\bin directory is completely empty
(default mount point for \cygwin\bin).



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