Hi, I have got a problem while installing man, =========================================== Windows 2000 Professional CYGWIN_NT-5.0 1.5.4(0.94/3/2) =========================================== $ tar -xf boost_1_30_doc_man.tar tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:any.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:any_cast.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:bad_any_cast.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:bad_function_call.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:function.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:functionN.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:function_base.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:is_reference_wrapper.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:last_value.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:reference_wrapper.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:signal.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:signalN.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:signals\:\:connection.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:signals\:\:scoped_connection.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:signals\:\:trackable.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:slot.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:unwrap_reference.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:visit_each.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors What is wrong? ===================================== Alex Vinokur mailto:alexvn@connect.to http://mathforum.org/library/view/10978.html news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.c++.perfometer =====================================
On Sunday 09 November 2003 12:55 am, Alex Vinokur wrote:
tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:any.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: boost_1_30_0/doc/man/man3/boost\:\:any_cast.3: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar: [snip] What is wrong?
The Windows file system can't store filenames with ':' in them, but having ':' is nice so that one can type man boost::function We could generate a Cygwin version that uses '_' instead of ':', if that would help, although it's a bit more ugly to type man boost__function Doug
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