tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ...

[Jason Tishler]

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

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