Re: [Bug-tar] RE: Regarding error message returned by Tar utility

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

To my knowledge, tar does not support windows file sharing strings
(\\server\filename).

I'm frankly a surprised that such a large team of folks couldn't
figure that out, particularly since you included a link to the
documentation in the first email.

Dustin

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Alagappan Muthuraman -X (alagu - WIPRO
at Cisco) <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>     Can you please acknowledge this email?  Appreciate your immediate
> response on this issue.
>
> - Alagappan C.M.
> ________________________________
> From: Abhishake Jha -X (abjha - WIPRO at Cisco)
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 2:47 PM
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: Srikanth S (srikans); Alagappan Muthuraman -X (alagu - WIPRO at Cisco);
> Madhav Gopinath -X (madhavg - WIPRO at Cisco); Swarup Roy Chowdhury
> (swroycho)
> Subject: RE: Regarding error message returned by Tar utility
> Importance: High
>
> Hi All,
>
> Would appreciate your response on this issue. Please let us know about the
> error, and the cause for the same.
>
> Thanks,
> Abhishake
> ________________________________
> From: Abhishake Jha -X (abjha - WIPRO at Cisco)
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 4:30 PM
> To: 'address@hidden'
> Cc: Srikanth S (srikans); Alagappan Muthuraman -X (alagu - WIPRO at Cisco);
> Madhav Gopinath -X (madhavg - WIPRO at Cisco)
> Subject: Regarding error message returned by Tar utility
> Importance: High
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am Abhishake Jha working in India. I have a query regarding the GNU
> Tar.exe in this e-mail and would very appreciate a response to this e-mail.
> We are using the Tar.exe of the following license in one of our
> applications. We are using the Tar.exe with the following license:
>
> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
> Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
> version.
>  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
> ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General
> Public License for more details.
> GNU General Public License is available at
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php
> <http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php> ;
>
> Documentation and Source code for TAR are available at:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/directory/tar.html
> <http://www.gnu.org/directory/tar.html>
>
> This utility is invoked by our application. We got an error message by this
> utility and we are not very sure about the root cause. Here is a snapshot of
> the same:
>
> We use this utility to create a Tar file, by executing the following
> command:
> Tar.exe -c --atime-preserve -f
> "\\10.76.244.253\cme-upgrade\Backup06-19-08#13-27.tar" \\STI\\Backup
>
> Can you let us know what the above error "Cannot open
> \\10.76.244.253\cme-upgrade\Backup06-19-08#13-27.tar: Invalid argument"
> means? The folder "cme-upgrade" in the machine 10.76.244.253 is shared and
> has full permissions, and can be accessed from this machine, where the
> application is run.
>
> Let me know if you have any questions. Your quick response will be highly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Abhishake Jha
>



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