Re: Problem w/ cygwin tar.exe: Unable to tar directories beginningw/ the letter 'R' in NT 4.0

[Bob McGowan <rmcgowan at veritas dot com>]

Use forward slashes (UNIX style).

"VanRossem, James" wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Basically when i run
> 
> tar -cvfz file.tgz c:david\adv\roy
> I get an error
> oy: No such file or directory
> 
> Any ideas?  or work arounds?  (besides changing the directory name)
> Thanks all.
> I appreciate your time and help.
> 
> -J
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