Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere To: Christopher Faylor , cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 07:53:53 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin Reply-to: gerrit.haase@t-online.de Message-ID: <3A372B11.1557.336A22F@localhost> In-reply-to: <20001212155838.A5824@redhat.com> References: <3A368E31.25559.D1D868@localhost>; from gerrit.haase@t-online.de on Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:44:33PM +0100 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) <12 Dec 2000, 15:58 Uhr wars, als Christopher Faylor folgendes schrub:> < Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cy > > In that case you were using backslashes in bash. For the 100000000000000000000th > time: a backslash is a quoting character in UNIX shells. If you want to use > it you have to double it up. So you either have to: > > bash$ mount d:\\ftproot /ftproot > > or > > bash$ mount d:/ftproot /ftproot > > cgf Repetition from my former email! O.K., but there is still no explanation, why i got this error doing: mount c:\ftp /ftp 1. siebenschlaefer@LORELEY /hdd $ mount c:\ftp /ftp mount: /ftp: Invalid argument 2. siebenschlaefer@LORELEY /hdd $ mount c:\ftp ftp mount: ftp: Invalid argument The second case is o.k., argument ftp is invalid, but in first case, not /ftp is invalid, but 'c:ftp' because the quote is a quote and a backslash or slash is missing in this place, so there is the wrong error message, IMHO. -- Gerrit Peter Haase -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com