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You are missing the point of the bug/feature described in the article. Neither me or the OP are arguing that you should have to type cp.exe to run the executab
by jcoffland 11y ago
You are missing the point of the bug/feature described in the article. Neither me or the OP are arguing that you should have to type cp.exe to run the executable. The tar program should always just extract the files contained in it. Instead it overwrites some of them in some cases. This is perhaps related to calling a program with or with out the .exe extension but is only an unnecessary side-effect.
- barrkel 11y agoI noticed that after I wrote the comment, but I doesn't affect my opinion that this is still the correct behaviour for Cygwin. If anything, there should be Cygwin compatibility code added to tar.