tar Does Not Handle Win32 Pathnames ...

[Earnie Boyd]

--- Jason Tishler <Jason.Tishler@dothill.com> wrote:
> .... but other commands like gunzip, ls, etc. do:
> 
>     $ ls C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
>     C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
> 
>     $ tar -tvzf C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
>     tar (grandchild): Cannot open archive C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
>     ...
> 
>     $ gunzip C:/temp/make-3.79.tar.gz
> 
>     $ ls C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
>     C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
> 
>     $ tar -tvf C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
>     tar: Cannot open C:/temp/make-3.79.tar
>     ...
> 

What does `type -a tar' return?  BTW, I tried this and it didn't work for me
either but your reported results are different.

Cheers,

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