[Bug-tar] Re: possible bug found in gnuwin32 version of tar version 1.13

[Matt McCutchen]

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 10:13 -0700, John Booth wrote:
> I cannot archive a file starting with the letter r. It
> will come back with an error and drop the leading
> letter r.

I'm guessing that either the shell or tar is turning the \r, a common
escape sequence for a carriage return, into an actual carriage return,
causing tar to fail to access the file and to print an error message
that looks corrupted because it includes the carriage return.

You might try using double backslashes in the command-line arguments.
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