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Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin
- To: Christopher Faylor <cygwin at cygwin dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin
- From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit dot haase at t-online dot de>
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 21:32:00 +0100
- Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere
- References: <3A372B11.1557.336A22F@localhost>; from gerrit.haase@t-online.de on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 07:53:53AM +0100
- Reply-to: gerrit dot haase at t-online dot de
<13 Dec 2000, 9:48 Uhr wars, als Christopher Faylor folgendes schrub:>
< Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cy >
> >The second case is o.k., argument ftp is invalid, but in first case,
> >not /ftp is invalid, but 'c:ftp' because the quote is a quote and a
> >backslash or slash is missing in this place, so there is the wrong
> >error message, IMHO.
>
> 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.
For me this error-message is like no error-message, if it didn't point
to the failure i made.
It's only criticism. If this is not wanted...
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Gerrit Peter Haase
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