-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Tom Lee on 9/30/2006 11:24 PM: > > I don't undersand why "ls c:/test" works but not for > "tar cvf test.tar c:/test"
Because ls does not parse its arguments, but upstream tar treats c:/test as meaning open the file /test on the remote machine named c; and because I'm not in the mood to patch either ls or tar from what the upstream packages provide. For cygwin programs in general, POSIX paths will work, but you are lucky if DOS paths happen to work, since the point of cygwin is to provide a Linux emulation (aka POSIX-like behavior), and DOS paths are not supported in Linux. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteer cygwin coreutils/tar maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFH9NE84KuGfSFAYARAjRGAJ0QnCKxdpzJlV/oiy35xg8oSStTogCfRWnx TAhhI1UWWb47jYZrJRqE+Wc= =pEKa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
