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Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin
- From: "J. J. Farrell" <jjf at bcs dot org dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:52:44 -0800 (PST)
> From: Christopher Faylor <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 07:53:53AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> >
> >$ mount c:\ftp /ftp
> >mount: /ftp: Invalid argument
>
> If you do not specify a full path spec, you'll get an "invalid argument"
> error message.
>
> I don't know why you are having such a hard time wrapping your brain around
> that fact, but that's ok. I have nothing more to add to this thread.
I think Gerrit understands that fact, but is having trouble seeing
why mount doesn't complain about an apparently invalid argument
(c:\ftp) but does complain about one which is apparently valid (/ftp).
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