-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Eric Blake on 6/25/2007 6:14 AM: > In short, if you want to expand a tarball that contains a file such as > aux.c, or that has both foo and FOO, or any other problematic combination, > the easiest solution is to: > > mkdir managed > mount -o managed "`cygpath -am managed" managed
well, fix the typo first... mount -o managed "`cygpath -am managed`" managed > cd managed > tar xvf problematic.tar > >> How do we solve this? Due to this exception, I must copy everything >> manually for the moment. Time consuming, error prone, prehistorically, >> and not the UNIX blast I'm used to. > > Or better yet, don't create such problematic names in the first place when > creating your DVD. And why aren't managed mounts the default? Because > they slow down processing (which is already slow, since cygwin is an > emulation layer), and they reduce the already short maximum file name > limitations imposed by Windows. > - -- 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/ - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! 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 iD8DBQFGf7ig84KuGfSFAYARAiOhAJ9d+rjvr2XfYzhuWNBMScu0fAbwYACfZGhp fycVS3JBOrT5LeP0WuAA8HM= =Utwc -----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/
