Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:05:19 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600
Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 588

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Wednesday 27 July 2005
 Number  588
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Subjects for today
 
1   Drive letters in *nix ports : Paul Smedley <paul at smedley.info>
2  Re:  Drive letters in *nix ports : John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>


**= Email   1 ==========================**

Date:  Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:18:13 +0930
From:  Paul Smedley <paul at smedley.info>
Subject:   Drive letters in *nix ports

Hi All,
Last night I compiled latest tar for OS/2 with Innotek GCC and it now 
works without the  at longlink at  errors with the last tar on hobbes :)

However, it chokes on drive letters, eg:
[M:\]tar -xvf e:\file.tar
tar: e\:\\file.tar: Cannot open: I/O error
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Any hints on what to look for?

Cheers,

Paul.


**= Email   2 ==========================**

Date:  Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:35:39 +0100
From:  John Poltorak <jp at warpix.org>
Subject:  Re:  Drive letters in *nix ports

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:18:13PM +0930, Paul Smedley wrote:
> Hi All,
> Last night I compiled latest tar for OS/2 with Innotek GCC and it now 
> works without the  at longlink at  errors with the last tar on hobbes :)
> 
> However, it chokes on drive letters, eg:
> [M:\]tar -xvf e:\file.tar
> tar: e\:\\file.tar: Cannot open: I/O error
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> Any hints on what to look for?

Did you try e:/file.tar ?

I managed to compile it some time ago but it always created a core dump 
whenever it ran. What did you need to do to make it build? Or did it build 
straight out of the box?

 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul.


-- 
John