On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:17:45PM -0700, Ian Burrell wrote: >I just noticed a problem with the new tar package (1.13.19-1) and >Windows-style paths. When I give it a path with c:, it waits a while and >reports "c: Unknown Host". > >For example: > >tar -tzf c:/Download/Devel/Palm/prc-tools-2.0.92-cygwin.tar.gz > >Quoting doesn't make any difference. It is definitely a problem with >tar; the same thing happens if the archive is uncompressed. The previous >version didn't have this problem.
1) tar-1.13.19-1 has been around since March 30, 2001. 2) That's how tar works. A path spec with a colon in it is assumed to be a host name. Inspection of the documentation will show you how to bypass this. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
