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RE: Does anyone know why tar doesn't like "./" at the start of files?
- To: Cygwin News Group <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: Does anyone know why tar doesn't like "./" at the start of files?
- From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow at dayton dot adroit dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:58:41 -0500
> > --- Malcolm Boekhoff <Malcolm.Boekhoff@actfs.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Does anyone know why tar doesn't like "./" at the start of files?
> > > I can't get Pine to extract, because the files are prefixed with "./":
> > What happens if you `tar -Pxvzf /d/zip/pine4.21.tar-2.gz'?
>
> I get the same output:
>
> Mon Nov 13-17:36:33 / 506$ tar Pxvzf /d/zip/pine4.21.tar-2.gz
> ./pine4.21/
> tar: ./pine4.21: Could not create directory: No such file or directory
I couldn't find a copy of pine4.21 but pine4.30 has the
same layout and it works fine for me (tar 1.13) . What
version of tar are you using? You do have write permission
to the current directory don't you?
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