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Re: tar 1.13.19-1 with Windows path
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 02:02:02 -0400
- Subject: Re: tar 1.13.19-1 with Windows path
- References: <3CE5ABB9.7010806@znark.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:17:45PM -0700, Ian Burrell wrote:
>I just noticed a problem with the new tar package (1.13.19-1) and
>Windows-style paths. When I give it a path with c:, it waits a while and
>reports "c: Unknown Host".
>
>For example:
>
>tar -tzf c:/Download/Devel/Palm/prc-tools-2.0.92-cygwin.tar.gz
>
>Quoting doesn't make any difference. It is definitely a problem with
>tar; the same thing happens if the archive is uncompressed. The previous
>version didn't have this problem.
1) tar-1.13.19-1 has been around since March 30, 2001.
2) That's how tar works. A path spec with a colon in it is assumed to be
a host name. Inspection of the documentation will show you how to bypass
this.
cgf
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