From:	Noah	Date:	Wed Jun 11 11:05:33 2008
Subject:	Re: cant untar

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:54 AM, Andy Armstrong <andy@hexten.net> wrote:
>> tar is getting an unquoted pathname containing spaces - so it sees the name
>> as three distinct arguments.
> 
> Which is an example of horribly sloppy programming somewhere in CPAN.
> I can't believe we still have issues with spaces in filenames...
> 
>> 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.
> 
> I would guess rather that the reason the OP's .cpan is in C:\Documents
> and Settings\noah is because that *is* ~.  In which case he would need
> to change his home directory in cygwin's passwd file (or rerun cpan
> config and point it someplace else..)
> 


Hi,

I pointed everything to /tmp :)