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From: "Lothan" <lothan AT newsguy DOT com>
To: <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 23:18:29 -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 Christopher Faylor
> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 1:16 PM
> To: 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
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:34:37PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK
> Partners, Inc) wrote:
> >>The easiest way to check is to write a simple c program which
> displays its
> >>arguments.  This will bypass any echo trickery.
> >
> >Right.  Looks like its not globbing trickery.  A small program prints
> >out the arguments exactly as they're typed.  However, the same trickery
> >that echo uses appears to be what's affecting tar.  So far I've noticed
> >"bad" behavior in both with \t, \r, and \n.  In echo, this is a
> >"feature" I'm sure but in tar, I'd say its a bug.  I'm back to thinking
> >the issue is with tar...
>
> Yep.  I agree.

Now I'm really curious why I'm not seeing this odd behavior on my system.
The only changes I've made to the stock release of cygwin is that I dumped
sh-utils 1.16 in favor of sh-utils 2.0. My version of tar is 1.13.18, which
should be the standard cygwin-release tar. I even had tar create a
c:\temp\test.tar archive just to prove the point. sh-utils 2.0 does replace
echo, but I don't see anything in it that would effect tar.


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