X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <452452D6.7000909@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 20:33:26 -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: cygwin unix commands in windows 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: > Hello, > > after further study, I noticed that using "c:/directory" works fine with > my tests except tar.exe. > > all of the following commands works > cp.exe c:/temp/tuner.h c:/test/ > mv.exe c:/temp/tt.h c:/test > > for tar.exe, > tar test.tar c:/temp/* > works. > however, > tar cvf c:/test.tar c:/temp/* > and > tar xvf c:/test.tar > will fail > > is tar.exe the only exception that won't work correctly when using "c:/"? > > from my test, I didn't see any other commands has the problem in > handling "c:/" > > I understand people here may like /cygdrive/c more than c:/. Just want > to know if it is an accident feature that all other commands can work > with c:/ except tar? Tom, have you ever read the man page for 'tar'? Now might be a good time. Pay special attention to the "--force-local" flag. This is not a Cygwin issue. Further discussion if it in this thread is therefore off-topic for this list. You'll have to find another mailing list to follow-up with if you want to talk about this more. -- 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/