Re: cant untar

in line below

Andy Armstrong wrote:
> 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.
> 

I am very new to cygwin.  can you explain how I can do that