On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:56:31PM -0400, Reid Thompson wrote: >It appears that the main issue is the directory in the source tar file >named aux.
Use a managed mount. Create an empty directory c:/foo and mount -o managed c:/foo /foo cd /foo tar xf whatever you will then be able to extract files like "aux", "com1", etc. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/