Using cygwin tar from a DOS window

[Bill Stewart]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 8:58 AM Douglas Coup wrote:

But if I use tar from a DOS window ...
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Surely you don't mean DOS? DOS doesn't exist in Windows any more (unless
you are using an emulator like DosBox or a VM).

Do you mean a cmd.exe console window? (cmd.exe is a Windows console-mode
program that, despite appearances, is not "DOS." DOS was a real-mode
single-tasking operating system.)

Bill