RE: Support for UNC paths in gnu tar

[Bowie, Lee]

Quite the contrary.

A command such as
tar ztf s:\dir\file.tar.gz
or
tar ztf s:/dir/file.tar.gz
works.

If I try
tar ztf //host/dir/file.tar.gz
or
tar ztf \\host\dir\ile.tar.gz
it doesn't.

I'm using the this tar ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.12.msdos.exe
If this is not the "official" release what is?

The -P option doesn't help when attempting to use a UNC path.



-----Original Message-----
From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: June 6, 2002 1:07 AM
To: Bowie, Lee
Cc: 'address@hidden'
Subject: Re: Support for UNC paths in gnu tar



On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Bowie, Lee wrote:

> Are there any plans to support UNC paths in the next release of gnu tar
for
> dos? Any date for the next release?

Since the current official distribution of GNU Tar does not yet support 
DOS and Windows (including file names: even the simple "d:/foo/bar" style 
file name causes it to break), it is not meaningful to ask about addition 
of support for UNCs.

As a work-around, you could try using the UNC directly, but with forward 
slashes instead of backslashes, as in "//server/share/foo/bar".  If Tar 
removes the leading slashes (that's the default on Unix and GNU/Linux 
systems, but I don't know what the port you are using will do), use the 
"-P" option to override that.

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