Re: Support for UNC paths in gnu tar

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Bowie, Lee wrote:

> Are there any plans to support UNC paths in the next release of gnu tar for
> dos? Any date for the next release?

Since the current official distribution of GNU Tar does not yet support 
DOS and Windows (including file names: even the simple "d:/foo/bar" style 
file name causes it to break), it is not meaningful to ask about addition 
of support for UNCs.

As a work-around, you could try using the UNC directly, but with forward 
slashes instead of backslashes, as in "//server/share/foo/bar".  If Tar 
removes the leading slashes (that's the default on Unix and GNU/Linux 
systems, but I don't know what the port you are using will do), use the 
"-P" option to override that.