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Re: tar ball with illegal file names
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: tar ball with illegal file names
- From: Mumit Khan <khan at NanoTech dot Wisc dot EDU>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:20:09 -0600 (CST)
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, DJ Delorie wrote:
> djtar has a lot of interesting features that are really only useful
> for djtar. However, it does know how to read tar, tar.gz, and zip
> files, and deal with all the dos 8.3-isms.
Ah, another name for pax ;-) 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 ...
Regards,
Mumit
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