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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:55:00 -0500
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: tar errors on Win95/98/ME.
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At 12:50 PM 3/21/2001, Fennacy, Jim wrote:
>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.



I assume you mean cygwin1.dll.  There is no cygwin32.dll.

Taking my assumption, I recall that \\.\ syntax (or //./ in your case)
is NT only syntax.  9x platforms don't support it.  Assuming you don't need
to create/read tar floppies, this shouldn't be a big deal.  If you do, then
you're limited to NT-based platforms.



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