tar hangs on unpacking calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar

[Stephan Mueller]

Reinier Post writes:
"   curl ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/c/calcoo/calcoo_1.3.16.orig.tar.gz
" | tar zxvf -
"
" hangs after printing the line
"
"   calcoo-1.3.16/src/aux.c
"
" This happens on two different i386 systems, both running an up to date Cygwin
" on an up to date Windows XP with the latest security patches applied.
" The file system is NTFS.

The problem is likely related to the fact that Windows won't allow creation of files with names like aux and nul and con (among others) as these are reserved device names.

Cygwin 'Managed Mounts' should help.

stephan();



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