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From: Shankar Unni <shankar AT cotagesoft DOT com>
Subject: Re: bug w/ 'tar' implementation
Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 10:31:51 -0700
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Todd Gee wrote:

> prompt> tar cf D:/cygwin/home/user/foo.tar *
> tar: D\:/cygwin/home/user/foo.tar: Cannot open: I/O error
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

IAFNAB (It's a Feature, Not a Bug).

Tar explicitly documents that archive names of the format "x:y" are 
treated as "path y on host x". So in your case, tar is trying to contact 
a host called  "D", and failing.

Since this is cygwin tar we're talking about here, use the 
/cygdrive/d/cygwin/home/user/foo.tar notation (or since, in your case, 
this is Cygwin's own root, you'll be able to say just 
"/home/user/foo.tar" and take advantage of the mount points).



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