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Use --force-local in tar #54

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Fixes "tar: Cannot connect to C: resolve failed"

Implementations of tar interpret path as hostname:path when given the opportunity, causing issues when given standard Windows absolute paths. --force-local should be used to prevent this behaviour, which is not required here since the temporary path should always be local.

References:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12823499/windows-command-line-tar-cannot-connect-to-d-resolve-failed-with-chef-knife https://superuser.com/questions/287233/tar-command-to-extract-archive-with-colon-in-the-name

Fixes "tar: Cannot connect to C: resolve failed"

Implementations or tar interpret path as `hostname:path` when given the opportunity, causing issues when given standard Windows absolute paths. `--force-local` should be used to prevent this behaviour, which is not required here since the temporary path should always be local.

References:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12823499/windows-command-line-tar-cannot-connect-to-d-resolve-failed-with-chef-knife
https://superuser.com/questions/287233/tar-command-to-extract-archive-with-colon-in-the-name
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