Re: Support

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Aldo Wojciechowski" <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 17:28:09 -0200
> 
> D:\>tar xzvf D:\TCA\Recebe\CAM\M*.TGZ
> tar (child): Cannot execute remote shell: No such file or directory
> tar (child): D\:\\TCA\\Recebe\\CAM\\M*.TGZ: Cannot open: I/O error
> tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> 
> gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
> tar: Child returned status 2
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> 
> Why I can't use the TAR program with the directory + file ?

I'm guessing that you have a buggy port of GNU Tar.  The original Tar
code assumes that a file whose name includes a colon `:' is a remote
file, so it tries to invoke the `rmt' command to get the file from a
remote computer.  Of course, this breaks horribly on DOS/Windows
machines where a colon is a standard part of a fully-qualified file
name.  The person who did the port of your Tar version didn't fix
that code to work on Windows.

A solution would be to find a better port of Tar.  For all versions
of Windows except NT 4, I suggest this port:

  
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/tar112ab.zip&name=tar112ab.zip

(This port will work on NT 4 as well, but will not support long file
names there.)  If you want integrated compression as well, download a
gzip port from the same page:

  
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/gzip13b.zip&name=gzip13b.zip