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RE: tar and cygwin
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 12:06:15 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: RE: tar and cygwin
- References: <NUTMEGLaqSOc7wo95EF0000060f@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Dave Korn wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> > Sent: 10 December 2004 15:58
> > To: Talk Amongst Yourselves
> > Subject: Re: tar and cygwin
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 03:46:35PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> > >> Sent: 10 December 2004 15:32
> > >> To: Talk Amongst Yourselves
> > >> Subject: Re: tar and cygwin
> > >>
> > >> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:51:58AM +0000, David wrote:
> > >> >i'm trying to TAR to DLT using Cygwin. I'm using the command -b 512,
> > >> >but for some reason, the Tape will max out at 128bytes. If I use a
> > >> >Windows based TAR program it works fine at 512. Any suggestions?
> > >> >Thanks
> > >>
> > >> Now, this one sounds like half-a-chicken.
> > >
> > > That's because the other half is still running around madly outside in the
> > >farmyard and we can't catch it!
> >
> > That's the problem with chickens. We never had this problem
> > with goats.
> >
> > cgf
>
> Yes, but they did have a bad habit of chewing through all the wires.
> That's why we had to migrate Cygwin to a chicken-based infrastructure in
> the first place.
Huh? I thought this was done to establish the right pecking order between
Cygwin internals...
Igor
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