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From: "Fennacy, Jim" <jimf AT HDCSI DOT com>
To: "Cygwin Mailing List (E-mail)" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: tar errors on Win95/98/ME.
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:50:05 -0800
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I have the Cygwin 1.1.8 distribution installed on my Win2K box.  
I have copied cygwin32.dll, mount.exe, umount.exe, and tar.exe to a WinME
machine to the c:\windows folder.
I can mount and umount successfully, but tar errors out.

Here's what the mount table looks like after running "mount -f //./a:
/dev/fd0":
C:\WINDOWS>mount
Device              Directory           Type         Flags
\\.\a:              /dev/fd0            user         textmode
C:                  /                   user         textmode

Here's the error from tar:
C:\WINDOWS>tar tvf /dev/fd0
/WINDOWS/TAR: /dev/fd0: Cannot open: No such file or directory
/WINDOWS/TAR: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

I need to provide just tar to many windows machines in my company.  The
entire distribution would be too big; this is why I copied just the 4 files
I mentioned.  This works fine on WinNT/Win2K machines.

Thanks.
Jim.

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