From:	Andy Armstrong	Date:	Wed Jun 11 08:54:22 2008
Subject:	Re: cant untar

On 11 Jun 2008, at 15:49, Noah wrote:
> Scanning cache /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/noah/.cpan/build  
> for sizes
> gzip: and.gz: No such file or directory
> gzip: Settings/noah/.cpan/sources/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/Bundle- 
> CPAN-1.857.tar.gz:
> No such file or directory
> /usr/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive
> /usr/bin/tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors


tar is getting an unquoted pathname containing spaces - so it sees the  
name as three distinct arguments.

A local fix would be to move your cygwin cpan to ~/.cpan (which  
probably maps to something like C:\cygwin\home\noah\.cpan in Windows)  
- no spaces.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, Hexten