Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Joe Buehler Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: Tar Problems Under Cygwin Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 11:16:31 -0400 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3D63AECF.1000507@hekimian.com> References: <001301c2491e$03db5eb0$0100a8c0 AT wdg DOT uk DOT ibm DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hekimian.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029942918 11367 206.205.138.10 (21 Aug 2002 15:15:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet AT main DOT gmane DOT org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2002 15:15:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Anthony Massa wrote: > Is /cygdrive/f/ (or whatever drive letter) a standard when Cygwin is > installed? It's the default behavior when Cygwin is installed. There is also an option on tar to tell it not to interpret x:/some/path as a reference to a remote machine named "x". It's --force-local. Joe Buehler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/