RE: Problem w/ cygwin tar.exe: Unable to tar directories beginnin g w/ the letter 'R' in NT 4.0

["Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>]

At 01:45 AM 2/7/2001, Lothan wrote:
> > From: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com
> > [mailto:cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Larry Hall (RFK
> > Partners, Inc)
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 12:12 PM
> > To: cygwin@cygwin.com; cygwin@cygwin.com
> > Subject: Re: Problem w/ cygwin tar.exe: Unable to tar directories
> > beginnin g w/ the letter 'R' in NT 4.0
> >
> >
> > At 03:08 PM 2/6/2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 02:58:21PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK
> > Partners, Inc) wrote:
> > > >No, its not Cygwin.  If it were, other tools with this same
> > path would have
> > > >the same problem.  They don't.  Also note that the problem is with 1
> > > >backslash:
> > > >
> > > >D:\tmp\AshishCode>tar cvf file.tgz
> > d:\tmp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp
> > > >
> > > >tar: Cannot add file d:
> > mp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp: No such file or directory
> > > >tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> > > >
> > > >This bug is in tar.
> > >
> > >What does cygwin's echo do with this?  I'm not close to a
> > Windows machine right now.
> > >
> > >If you type:
> > >
> > >c:\>c:\cygwin\bin\echo d:\tmp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp
> > >
> > >what is output?
> > >
> > >It's possible that cygwin's globbing is not correctly
> > interpreting d:\ as a
> > >path spec.  It tries to be clever about doing the right thing
> > with dos filespecs
> > >but it could still be broken.
> >
> >
> > D:\tmp>d:\usr\bin\echo d:\tmp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp
> > d:      mp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp
> >
> > OK, you got me.  It looks like this is a Cygwin issue.  Interesting that
> > things like cat and ls don't have a problem here...
>
>Interesting, because this is not what I'm getting. If I type it from cmd.exe
>in Windows 2000 I get exactly what I expect:
>
>C:\>c:\cygwin\bin\echo d:\tmp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp
>d:\tmp\AshishCode\DeProxyBridgeDependency.cpp
>
>One funny question, though... why is your echo in d:\usr\bin and mine (1.1.8
>latest) is in \cygwin\bin? My \cygwin\usr\bin directory is completely empty
>(default mount point for \cygwin\bin).


Because I don't use the default directory setup (which means I can't ask the
list if I were to have problems that involved my installation 
configuration!;-))  You don't need to be concerned by these differences.



Larry



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