Hi, If someone can point me to the proper place, I would be willing to further analyze this, but this is the issue:
Files/Directories that end in a '.'(dot) are not retaining the dot. For example: I am attempting to untar a tarball that contains this (done on a linux box) drwxr-xr-x 22 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 ./ drwxr-xr-x 5 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 ../ drwxr-xr-x 3 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 ArborText/ drwxr-xr-x 3 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 Hewlett-Packard/ drwxr-xr-x 3 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 IDN_faq.org/ drwxr-xr-x 4 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 IETF/ drwxr-xr-x 3 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 ISBN_82-7640-000/ drwxr-xr-x 3 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 ISBN_82-7640-023/ drwxr-xr-x 4 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 ISO_8879-1986/ drwxr-xr-x 4 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 ISO_8879:1986/ drwxr-xr-x 3 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 ISO_IEC_15445:2000/ drwxr-xr-x 3 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 Microsoft/ drwxr-xr-x 3 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 Netscape_Comm._Corp./ drwxr-xr-x 3 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 Rick_Jelliffe/ drwxr-xr-x 3 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 Sun_Microsystems_Corp./ drwxr-xr-x 4 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 W3C/ drwxr-xr-x 3 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 W3O/ drwxr-xr-x 3 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 WebTechs/ drwxr-xr-x 2 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Dec 15 11:53 declaration/ drwxr-xr-x 2 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 dtd/ drwxr-xr-x 4 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 entities/ drwxr-xr-x 4 mgpaulus mgpaulus 4096 Apr 7 2001 html/ When I try to explode the same tarball on a managed mountpoint under cygwin, I don't get the Netscape_COMM._Corp. or the Sun_Microsystems_Corp. directories. I don't know whether the issue is in cygwin1.dll, or in mount, or where I should start to look for this. -- 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/
