RE: Please help !!! A very simple question for you.

[Zelck, Guy]

Hi,

It could be the ':' is confusing it, the syntax is correct though.
Try placing the paths between single or double quotes.
>From what kind of package is your tar command. If you would be using Cygwin
(RedHat now) you could simply use the unix syntax /d/tmp/x.tar.

Guy Zelck 
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Guy Zelck 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Narayanan Krishnan [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: woensdag 29 november 2000 17:10
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Please help !!! A very simple question for you.
> 
> 
> Could you tell me how to achieve the following.
> 
> Let say I need to extract the file  d:\temp\x.tar
> 
> My current working directory is say c:\temp
> 
> I want to run my tar commannd from this c\temp directory itself.
> 
> I want to extract the file and put the directory at the same 
> location as the
> tar file itself. This is a requirement
> 
> Im trying
> 
> c:\temp > tar xvf d:\temp\x.tar --force-local -C d:\temp
> 
> 
> It doesnt work . The error is
> 
> tar: Cannot change to directory /TEMP/d:        emp: No such file or
> directory
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> Do you have any suggestions. I know you can move to different 
> directories in
> the -C command , but cant seem to do that for different 
> drives on the same
> local machine.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Narayanan Krishnan
> 678 202 2344
> 
> 
> 
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