tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ...
Earnie Boyd
earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Thu May 25 07:55:00 GMT 2000
--- Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com> wrote:
> .... but other commands like gunzip, ls, etc. do:
>
> $ ls C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
> C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
>
> $ tar -tvzf C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
> tar (grandchild): Cannot open archive C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
> ...
>
> $ gunzip C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
>
> $ ls C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
> C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
>
> $ tar -tvf C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
> tar: Cannot open C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
> ...
>
What does `type -a tar' return? BTW, I tried this and it didn't work for me
either but your reported results are different.
Cheers,
=====
---
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