On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 06:13:29PM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> > Why not just use a command line that's more portable? I don't know what
> > that `--force-local' means
>
> It tells tar that c:/mytar.tar is a local file, not a file on the host
> "c".
Yuk! Is this `a file on the host c' a general msys behaviour, or
specific to the msys gnutar? Would
bzip2 -cd c:/blah.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
suffer, too? My guess is that gnutar does this special treatment
of `X:path' meaning remote access to `path' on host `X`, so the
(more "portable") solution using the bzip2 ... | tar pipe may work
on msys (and everywhere else).
Would be nice if anyone with a Windows OS could try it.
Ciao,
Kili
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