From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: (Fwd) Mail Delivery Failure. 9 Aug 1997 05:43:42 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <01BCA4C9.5F1143C0.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> Original-To: Ken Cantrell , "'Jeremy Blackman'" Original-Cc: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" Encoding: 15 TEXT Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Jeremy Blackman wrote: > > The command > > tar -cvf t.tar p6_das2bin.c p6_das2bin.h Makefile changelog > > works fine, but > > tar -cvf t08081997-10:46.tar p6_das2bin.c p6_das2bin.h Makefile changelog > > I think this is because DOS/Windows can't use ':' in filenames that way. Man tar :-) The colon in filename separates remote host name from filename :-) Add --force-local option to tar command line. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".