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Re: Problem w/ cygwin tar.exe: Unable to tar directories beginnin g w/ the letter 'R' in NT 4.0
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 03:34:37PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
>>The easiest way to check is to write a simple c program which displays its
>>arguments. This will bypass any echo trickery.
>
>Right. Looks like its not globbing trickery. A small program prints
>out the arguments exactly as they're typed. However, the same trickery
>that echo uses appears to be what's affecting tar. So far I've noticed
>"bad" behavior in both with \t, \r, and \n. In echo, this is a
>"feature" I'm sure but in tar, I'd say its a bug. I'm back to thinking
>the issue is with tar...
Yep. I agree.
cgf
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