X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <451F42EE.2060100@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:24:14 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: mssing packages for cygwin References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Tom Lee wrote: > >> > I read mount and cygpath manual, but still not sure if there is a way >> > that I can >> > run >> > tar cvf test.tar c:/test or >> > tar cvf test.tar c:\test >> > >> >> Actually, from either a DOS or a bash (or other cygwin) shell, you can >> do: >> >> tar cvf test.tar /cygdrive/c/test >> >> Get used to POSIX paths - cygwin is a Linux emulation for Windows, and >> POSIX paths will work in more places than DOS paths (not to mention that >> backslashes are a pain to use on the command line with regards to proper >> quoting rules between the two different styles of shells, but forward >> slashes work great in both cases). > > > tar cvf test.tar /cygdrive/c/test is nice to work. > > howver, can I mount /cygdrive/c as c:/ and run as > tar cvf test.tar c:/test ? > > I have tar.exe djgpp and it works this way. djgpp is for the DOS world. If that's what you really want, you're better off using djgpp. But to your question, there is no need to use mount in the way you describe. '/cygdrive/c' is a built-in mount to map 'c:' into POSIX paths. If you're hung up on DOS paths, you can try'em but if you have problems that you don't get using the POSIX paths, then you're better off using 'cygpath' to convert DOS->POSIX. For example: cygpath -u c:/test As far as Cygwin (and the vast majority of the underlying Win32 functions accepting paths), \ and / are synonymous. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/