-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Mike Dieter on 11/2/2006 3:26 PM: > tar version: 1.15.91 > > I am using Cygwin (see attachment for facts) on an IBM XP home edition.
Cygwin now ships with tar 1.16; consider upgrading. > > $ tar -ztvf C:/download/Majordomo.tar.gz > C: Unknown Host There's your problem. If you are using cygwin, it is assumed that you want a POSIX environment. On POSIX environments, the notation c:/download/Majordomo.tar.gz tells tar to go find the remote machine named "C" and tar the file "/download/Majordomo.tar.gz". Cygwin is no exception on this front, since it's goal is a POSIX-y environment on Windows. If you want DOS style paths to work with tar, then use a DOS compilation of tar, such as the version provided by mingw. > So I changed it to: > tar -ztvf /cygdrive/c/download/Majordomo.tar.gz > AND IT WORED! Where as that is a POSIX path, so you are correct that it will work on cygwin (although it won't work on the above-mentioned mingw version). > > I would HOPE that BOTH would work under Cygwin... This is not an upstream bug in tar, nor is it a cygwin bug. It is a design decision. And there was probably no need for you to slam the upstream bug-tar list with so much information, since your problem usage was localized to cygwin, and not indicative of an upstream tar bug. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFS0jI84KuGfSFAYARAve4AJ0crFtj9q1mqinXVTgCkBYydVFlvgCggNnG l4JC1yt6ySkwwV9HBhznpJU= =IM5W -----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/
