Claudio Grondi wrote: > remember. I work in a Windows command shell > (DOS-box) and mount says: > j: on /cygdrive/j , but I don't know how to write > the entire path > "j:\o\archives\images\dump.tar", > so that the file can be found by tar.exe and > unpacked to "i:\images" . > tar.exe --extract --directory=tmp -f j:/o/archives/images/dump.tar > results in: > /usr/bin/tar: j\:/o/archives/images/dump.tar: Cannot open: Input/Output > error > telling > tar.exe --extract --directory=tmp -f /cygdrive/j/o/archives/images/dump.tar > doesn't work either.
Try the cygpath-command like this: echo `cygpath c:\\some\\windows\\path` That should yield /cygdrive/c/some/windows/path Alternatively, do somethink like this mkdir -p /mnt/j mount j: /mnt/j Then /mnt/j should be the root for all files under j: HTH Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
