On Mar 14 21:21, Peter Binney wrote: > Please ignore/delete this - I realise this has nothing to do with the > change from 32 to 64 bit. > > It has always been a problem, which I have a wrapper script to work > round (I'd forgotten to install the wrapper after the upgrade).
In tar, the colon in a filename is treated specially, see `info tar':
If the archive file name includes a colon (':'), then it is assumed
to be a file on another machine. If the archive file is
'USER@HOST:FILE', then FILE is used on the host HOST. The remote host
is accessed using the 'rsh' program, with a username of USER.
To workaround this, you can use the --force-local option.
Corinna
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