"Ali Sabil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to report that GNU Tar, doesn't handle some tarball containing > \ as directory separator created > under Microsoft Windows.
\ is a valid character in an ordinary Unix file name; it is not a directory separator. tar must be able to extract such file names, and in your case it is doing so correctly as I understand it. It might be reasonable to add an option to GNU tar that says "treat \ as a directory separator when extracting", but this behavior should not be the default. But personally I think such an option should be low priority, as people using tar on Windows should learn to use / rather than \ when specifying file names.
