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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:25:17 -0500
To: Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
Subject: Re: tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ...
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At 10:21 AM 5/25/00, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Larry,
>
>"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> > Try using \ for the path separators.  Any path with a \ in it is interested
> > as a Win32 path.  Paths without / are considered POSIX paths I believe (so
> > the result is tar is looking for a host named "C" using NFS syntax).
>
>Before posting, I had already tried the following:
>
>     $ tar -tvzf 'C:\temp\make-3.79.tar.gz'
>     tar (grandchild): Cannot open archive C:\temp\make-3.79.tar.gz
>     ...
>
>Thanks,
>Jason


Could be a tar issue with NFS paths then (though that's only a guess)...


Larry


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