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Re: tar ball with illegal file names

To: khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU
Subject: Re: tar ball with illegal file names
From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 20:24:21 -0500
CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
References: <Pine.HPP.3.96.1010129191838.28810L-100000@hp2.xraylith.wisc.edu>


> Ah, another name for pax ;-)

But without the can of worms that goes along with it.

> This sounds like a very useful tool, and Cygwin could use such a
> versatile tool, except that we don't have to worry about the dos
> 8.3-ism part. One of these days when I'm bored ...

By "8.3isms" I mean it has facilities for automatically renaming known
problem files, and it knows how to deal with failed opens (it won't
overwrite an existing file, for example).

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