On Oct 18 09:13, srikant veeraraghavan wrote: > Also, > I have tried using these... > tar -cf /dev/tape1 /cygdrive/c/StratfordData/30GB_Dataset/ > tar -cf /TAPE0 /cygdrive/c/StratfordData/30GB_Dataset/ > > Not sure which one is right as all of them do not report any errors!
Sure they don't. The tar -cf command created files with these names. Have a look into / and /dev and you'll see. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
