Just to be clear, your shell is finding and running tar just fine (as you can confirm with "tar --help". Messages of the form "tar: blah blah blah" are from tar itself. If your shell couldn't find tar at all, you would get something like "bash: tar: command not found".From: "Scott Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Installation Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 11:06:41 -0000OK got locate working, but there seems to be something wrong in general with calling commands. "ls -l" works fine but... "ls -l | more" does not Also, I wanted to install cygipc but it gives me the following: $ tar -C/ -xjf cygipc-1.13-2.tar.bz2 tar (child): cygipc.1.13-2.tar.bz2: cannot open: no such file or directory tar (child): error not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors The file "tar.exe" is in my bin directory...why can't it see it? Scott
(Sorry for the munged headers.)
Jeremy
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