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Re: (Fwd) Mail Delivery Failure.
- To: Ken Cantrell <kcantrel at dg-rtp dot dg dot com>
- Subject: Re: (Fwd) Mail Delivery Failure.
- From: Jeremy Blackman <loki at dragoncat dot net>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 1997 11:52:01 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Ken Cantrell wrote:
> The command
> tar -cvf t.tar p6_das2bin.c p6_das2bin.h Makefile changelog
> works fine, but
> tar -cvf t08081997-10:46.tar p6_das2bin.c p6_das2bin.h Makefile changelog
I think this is because DOS/Windows can't use ':' in filenames that way.
Look at it this way:
a:blah.tar <--- blah.tar on drive a:
t08081997-10:46.tar <--- 46.tar on drive t08081997-10:
Tar, of course, being a UNIX program, doesn't inherently -know- this is a
bad thing. :)
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