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 21:32:00 +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: <3A37EAD0.31738.623A595@localhost> In-reply-to: <20001213094802.A10906@redhat.com> References: <3A372B11.1557.336A22F@localhost>; from gerrit.haase@t-online.de on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 07:53:53AM +0100 X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) <13 Dec 2000, 9:48 Uhr wars, als Christopher Faylor folgendes schrub:> < Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cy > > >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. > > If you do not specify a full path spec, you'll get an "invalid argument" > error message. > > I don't know why you are having such a hard time wrapping your brain around > that fact, but that's ok. I have nothing more to add to this thread. For me this error-message is like no error-message, if it didn't point to the failure i made. It's only criticism. If this is not wanted... -- Gerrit Peter Haase -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com