On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 8:58 AM Douglas Coup wrote: But if I use tar from a DOS window ... >
Surely you don't mean DOS? DOS doesn't exist in Windows any more (unless you are using an emulator like DosBox or a VM). Do you mean a cmd.exe console window? (cmd.exe is a Windows console-mode program that, despite appearances, is not "DOS." DOS was a real-mode single-tasking operating system.) Bill -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple