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Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2020 13:28:58 -0400
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On 9/2/2020 1:00 PM, Douglas Coup wrote:
> 
> On 9/2/2020 12:53 PM, Bill Stewart wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 8:58 AM Douglas Coup wrote:
>>
>> But if I use tar from a DOS window ...
>> Surely you don't mean DOS? DOS doesn't exist in Windows any more (unless
>> you are using an emulator like DosBox or a VM).
>>
>> Do you mean a cmd.exe console window? (cmd.exe is a Windows console-mode
>> program that, despite appearances, is not "DOS." DOS was a real-mode
>> single-tasking operating system.)
>>
>> Bill
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> Yes, a cmd.exe console window.

Hardly the point :-) ...

But I think your problem may be that the Cygwin dlls need to be on the search path,
and you're hoping that none of them have names that are the same as ones earlier on
the path ...

Best - Eliot Moss
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