bug w/ 'tar' implementation

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 02:39:56PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:05:00AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>>At 10:33 2003-05-07, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 10:27:57AM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>>Most Cygwin apps don't tolerate Windows path names (exceptions exist).
>>>>Use the provided "cygpath" command to translate between the various
>>>>path name syntaxes of Cygwin (POSIX) and Windows.
>>>
>>>True, but this isn't even that issue, however.  "man tar" is informative
>>>on how tar treats the files with colons which are arguments to -f or
>>>--file.
>>
>>Man tar? I have all of Cygwin installed, but there's no man page for "tar."
>
>Ok.  I checked this on linux not cygwin and cygwin doesn't have a man page.
>Apologies if I confused anyone.  The man page is much clearer than the info
>file.
>
>FWIW, this has been discussed in this mailing list on many occasions.  A
>mailing list search would unearth me pointing to the documentation in
>the past and probably people providing specific help as well.

(and I'm not suggesting that Randall should have done this just that it is
always useful to search before posting)

cgf

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