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RE: (Fwd) Mail Delivery Failure.
- To: Ken Cantrell <kcantrel at dg-rtp dot dg dot com>, "'Jeremy Blackman'" <loki at dragoncat dot net>
- Subject: RE: (Fwd) Mail Delivery Failure.
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 13:37:23 +0400
- Cc: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
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Jeremy Blackman 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.
Man tar :-) The colon in filename separates remote host name from filename :-) Add
--force-local option to tar command line.
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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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