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According to Linda Walsh on 7/25/2006 7:09 PM:
> I think I've run into a bug concerning "tar" and the use of
> windows format paths.  It's not a bug that is difficult to work
> around, but it still seems as though it is a bug that someone may
> wish to address (in their spare time, of course :-).

It's certainly not the highest priority on my list.  I would just stick
with POSIX paths.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
volunteer cygwin tar maintainer
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