tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ...

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 10:21 AM 5/25/00, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Larry,
>
>"Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" wrote:
> > Try using \ for the path separators.  Any path with a \ in it is interested
> > as a Win32 path.  Paths without / are considered POSIX paths I believe (so
> > the result is tar is looking for a host named "C" using NFS syntax).
>
>Before posting, I had already tried the following:
>
>     $ tar -tvzf 'C:\temp\make-3.79.tar.gz'
>     tar (grandchild): Cannot open archive C:\temp\make-3.79.tar.gz
>     ...
>
>Thanks,
>Jason



Could be a tar issue with NFS paths then (though that's only a guess)...



Larry



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