in reply to Lightweight, Platform-Independant Tar (Part 2)

The tar utility that comes as a part of UnxUtils is a "native port" and accepts fully specified paths. Eg. This works fine: 

tar -cf c:\X.tar X

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I've generally found these native ports work better (from cmd.exe) than those that rely upon the cygwin dlls.

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