At 03:04 PM 1/12/2004, Christopher Faylor you wrote: >On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 02:24:36PM -0500, Larry Hall wrote: >>At 02:00 PM 1/12/2004, DAVID SPEAR you wrote: >>>I am running cygwin under Win2K Pro SP4, and am having some trouble creating >>>backups with the gnu tar 1.13.25 that came with my distribution. Specifically, >>>I can make a full backup (of a directory) using: >>>>>>cygserver% tar -cf backup.tar -g /cygdrive/d/tmp/dumpdates-backup --ignore- >>>failed-read -l -v /cygdrive/d/myfolder >>>>I assume you missed this in your search for info? >>>><http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-10/msg01653.html> >>That should be old news. The current version of tar is supposed to fix the >problem. See: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-announce/2003-11/msg00009.html . Good point. I didn't chase the thread far enough (it's not my greatest skill anyway ;-) ). -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/