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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:36:44 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To: Anthony Massa <amassa AT san DOT rr DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Tar Problems Under Cygwin
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Hallo Anthony,

Am Mittwoch, 21. August 2002 um 16:16 schriebst du:

> I have the following mounts on my system:

> $ mount
[snip]
> f: on /cygdrive/f type user (textmode,noumount)
[snip]

> I'm curious why I cannot simply refer to my CD-ROM drive using F:/ when I
> un-tar the file.  How do I need to unzip the file from the CD-ROM drive.

$ mount --help
  -c, --change-cygdrive-prefix  change the cygdrive path prefix to <posixpath>

e.g.:
$ mount -s -b -c /

Access to the drives is then '/f' instead of '/cygdrive/f'.
Accessing drives via windows syntax works e.g. with ls, but
not with tar.


Gerrit
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perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'


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