X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: X-Sender: tom_lee01 AT hotmail DOT com In-Reply-To: <451F42EE.2060100@cygwin.com> From: "Tom Lee" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: mssing packages for cygwin Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 05:24:35 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: 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 >> >>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. thanks for your hep. I don't undersand why "ls c:/test" works but not for "tar cvf test.tar c:/test" Tom _________________________________________________________________ Try the new Live Search today! http://imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/searchlaunch/?locale=en-us&FORM=WLMTAG -- 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/