[Mingw-users] tar doesn't accept Windows-style path names with drive letters?

[Philip N. <pr....@hc...>]

Hi,

In the course of fixing a bug for Octave on Windows (www.octave.org) I 
hit the following issue:

The msys tar.exe executable doesn't accept Windows style file names a la
'C:\full\path\to\file.fil'
or even
'C:/full/path/to/file.fil'
but insists on
'/c/full/path/to/file.fil'.
The other archivers zip/unzip, bzip2 and gzip happily accept path names 
with drive letters.

My tar version:

$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.23
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

Thanks,

Philip