[Ohrrpgce] SVN: teeemcee/9393 Work-around Insane Misfeature of some versions of tar.exe (the one I hav

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teeemcee
2017-09-18 08:33:08 -0700 (Mon, 18 Sep 2017)
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Work-around Insane Misfeature of some versions of tar.exe (the one I have from msys, not the one we distribute)

It resulted in errors like "tar.exe reported failure, errorcode 128"
when attempting to produce a tar, because spawn_and_wait sadly doesn't return
stderr. The actual error looked like:
>"c:\MinGW\msys\1.0\bin\tar.exe" -c --mode=755 -f "w:\foo.tar" bar
"c:/MinGW/msys/1.0/bin/tar.exe": Cannot connect to w: resolve failed

Yes, tar will treat the name of the tarball as being a remote filename
if it contains a ':'... even on Windows!
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/13381
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