any luck with tar on a ZIP drive?

Thu Sep 25 11:15:00 GMT 1997

Chuck Bogorad wrote:
>> /dev/zip *" reports "tar: Cannot open /dev/zip: Permission denied". "tar cf 
> \\\\.\\e: *" causes a trap. i use b18 + latest Sergey's coolview. 

Tar treats a colon in filename as a host name delimiter. Try --force-local option.
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