On 15 Feb 2003, Robert Collins wrote: > On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 09:28, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > [snip] > > > I was also thinking of creating a '/dev/tty' file in the archive which > > was just a real file containing the words "Hey! What are YOU DOING???" I > > think that would cause a tar extraction to print that message to the > > screen. Don't know what it would do to setup.exe, though. > > probably create c:/cygwin/dev/tty... > > Rob
FYI: $ tar tvf test.tar drwxrwxrwx SYSTEM/SYSTEM 0 2003-02-14 17:48:16 dev/ -rw-rw-rw- SYSTEM/SYSTEM 27 2003-02-14 17:48:16 dev/tty $ tar xOf test.tar dev/tty Hey! What are YOU DOING??? $ cat test.tar | (cd / && tar xvf -) dev/ dev/tty Hey! What are YOU DOING??? tar: dev/tty: Cannot utime: No such file or directory tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors $ As for creating c:\cygwin\dev\tty, I do that anyway - allows Tab-completion. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! Oh, boy, virtual memory! Now I'm gonna make myself a really *big* RAMdisk! -- /usr/games/fortune -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/