Tar Problems Under Cygwin
Gerrit P. Haase
gp@familiehaase.de
Wed Aug 21 08:14:00 GMT 2002
Hallo Anthony,
Am Mittwoch, 21. August 2002 um 16:16 schriebst du:
> I have the following mounts on my system:
> $ mount
[snip]
> f: on /cygdrive/f type user (textmode,noumount)
[snip]
> I'm curious why I cannot simply refer to my CD-ROM drive using F:/ when I
> un-tar the file. How do I need to unzip the file from the CD-ROM drive.
$ mount --help
-c, --change-cygdrive-prefix change the cygdrive path prefix to <posixpath>
e.g.:
$ mount -s -b -c /
Access to the drives is then '/f' instead of '/cygdrive/f'.
Accessing drives via windows syntax works e.g. with ls, but
not with tar.
Gerrit
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