[gnuwin32 - Help] RE: unable to compress files?

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By: keithmarshall

FWIW, the OP's original examples indicate two distinct problems with GnuWin32's
tar implementation: in the first instance, it is failing to spawn a gzip child
process, to compress the archive; in the second, it appears to be attempting
to recurse the parent directory tree, via the chain of '..' links, (so becoming
a malformed entire drive archive), failing when it tries to enter a directory
for which the OP lacks access privilege.  This simply should not happen: on
*nix, '*.*' doesn't match '..' or '.' anyway, but furthermore, IIRC tar isn't
supposed to recurse through '..' links, (although it may follow one specified
among the command line arguments).

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