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Re: tar errors on Win95/98/ME.
- To: "Fennacy, Jim" <jimf at HDCSI dot com>, "Cygwin Mailing List (E-mail)" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: tar errors on Win95/98/ME.
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:55:00 -0500
At 12:50 PM 3/21/2001, Fennacy, Jim wrote:
>I have the Cygwin 1.1.8 distribution installed on my Win2K box.
>I have copied cygwin32.dll, mount.exe, umount.exe, and tar.exe to a WinME
>machine to the c:\windows folder.
>I can mount and umount successfully, but tar errors out.
>
>Here's what the mount table looks like after running "mount -f //./a:
>/dev/fd0":
>C:\WINDOWS>mount
>Device Directory Type Flags
>\\.\a: /dev/fd0 user textmode
>C: / user textmode
>
>Here's the error from tar:
>C:\WINDOWS>tar tvf /dev/fd0
>/WINDOWS/TAR: /dev/fd0: Cannot open: No such file or directory
>/WINDOWS/TAR: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
>
>I need to provide just tar to many windows machines in my company. The
>entire distribution would be too big; this is why I copied just the 4 files
>I mentioned. This works fine on WinNT/Win2K machines.
I assume you mean cygwin1.dll. There is no cygwin32.dll.
Taking my assumption, I recall that \\.\ syntax (or //./ in your case)
is NT only syntax. 9x platforms don't support it. Assuming you don't need
to create/read tar floppies, this shouldn't be a big deal. If you do, then
you're limited to NT-based platforms.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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