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Re: Problem w/ cygwin tar.exe: Unable to tar directories beginnin g w/ the letter 'R' in NT 4.0
At 03:08 PM 2/6/2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:58:21PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> >No, its not Cygwin. If it were, other tools with this same path would have
> >the same problem. They don't. Also note that the problem is with 1
> >backslash:
> >
> >D:\tmp\AshishCode>tar cvf file.tgz d:\tmp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp
> >
> >tar: Cannot add file d: mp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp: No such file or directory
> >tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> >
> >This bug is in tar.
>
>What does cygwin's echo do with this? I'm not close to a Windows machine right now.
>
>If you type:
>
>c:\>c:\cygwin\bin\echo d:\tmp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp
>
>what is output?
>
>It's possible that cygwin's globbing is not correctly interpreting d:\ as a
>path spec. It tries to be clever about doing the right thing with dos filespecs
>but it could still be broken.
D:\tmp>d:\usr\bin\echo d:\tmp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp
d: mp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp
OK, you got me. It looks like this is a Cygwin issue. Interesting that
things like cat and ls don't have a problem here...
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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