From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. J. Farrell" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: tar a filesystem outside of /cygwin Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 13:52:00 -0000 Message-id: <200012132152.NAA03275@capella.ssd.hal.com> References: <20001213094802.A10906@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-12/msg00599.html > From: Christopher Faylor > > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 07:53:53AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > > >$ mount c:\ftp /ftp > >mount: /ftp: Invalid argument > > If you do not specify a full path spec, you'll get an "invalid argument" > error message. > > I don't know why you are having such a hard time wrapping your brain around > that fact, but that's ok. I have nothing more to add to this thread. I think Gerrit understands that fact, but is having trouble seeing why mount doesn't complain about an apparently invalid argument (c:\ftp) but does complain about one which is apparently valid (/ftp). -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com