X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: tar.exe problem Date: 18 Oct 2004 10:15:40 GMT Lines: 37 Message-ID: <2thjecF1urnn1U1@uni-berlin.de> References: X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de vau15JQdD5DSMriWHGokQA9pJPEe9a9z0TZhIHU1dNz6Dl1EYEH9wYR/Fx X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com wrote: > running the following command: > c:\> tar cvf ctree.tar /test/toolkit/sbin/test.exe > /test/toolkit/lib/test/test.ccc > /test/toolkit/demos/test/chapters/startup/test.cc That command line is so long that your newsclient split it into three lines of text. Guess what: that's a sign of trouble on the actual command line, too. Don't use command lines significantly longer than your screen is wide, or you'll run into all kinds of interesting problems. > will get the error message: > The system cannot execute the specified program. Is that the actual message? Or your own, possibly abridged translation of it? Anyway: it's probably a bad idea to tar these files with their complete, absolute paths. Try cd \test\toolkit tar cvf /some/where/ctree.tar sbin/text.exe lib/test/test.ccc demos/test/chapters/startup/test.cc [the last as one long line] And is that second file actually named with *three* c's in its extension? Or learn how to use a response file ('info kb hid features', or check out the FAQ). -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.