tar 1.13.19-1 with Windows path

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 06:17:45PM -0700, Ian Burrell wrote:
>I just noticed a problem with the new tar package (1.13.19-1) and 
>Windows-style paths. When I give it a path with c:, it waits a while and 
>reports "c: Unknown Host".
>
>For example:
>
>tar -tzf c:/Download/Devel/Palm/prc-tools-2.0.92-cygwin.tar.gz
>
>Quoting doesn't make any difference. It is definitely a problem with 
>tar; the same thing happens if the archive is uncompressed. The previous 
>version didn't have this problem.

1) tar-1.13.19-1 has been around since March 30, 2001.

2) That's how tar works.  A path spec with a colon in it is assumed to be
   a host name.  Inspection of the documentation will show you how to bypass
   this.

cgf

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