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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:56:51 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: the tar from bootstrap.zip doesn't work
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In-Reply-To: <383316185.984384470263.JavaMail.root@web596-mc>; from dipaktc@techie.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:07:50AM -0500

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 03:07:50AM -0500, Deepak Shekhar wrote:
>When i use this tar with to untar the -src.tar.gz files as below
>
>tar xvfz c:\temp\latest\ash\ash-20010129-src.tar.gz.
>tar (grandchild) Cannot open archive
>c:\temp\latest\ash\ash-20010129-src.tar.gz.
>tar (grandchild) Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>gzip : stdin : unexpected end of file.
>cygwin\bin\tar.exe: child returned status 1
>cygwin\bin\tar.exe: error exit delayed due to previous errors.

Cygwin emulates UNIX.  Use UNIX paths, not MS-DOS paths.  tar does not
recognize c:\foo as a valid path without some extra options which would
be unnecessary if you just used UNIX paths.

cgf

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