Ville Oikarinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it really necessary to support backslashes in the file format?
>
> The executable that creates the tar archive knows whether the backslash is
> to be interpreted as a separator or as a filename character. Otherwise it
> wouldn't be able to add the right files in the archive.
The archive is a result of a missusage. Tar implementations internlly only
use '/' and take the starting path as given. If you give it a string that
contains a '\' which is a valid file name in the standard, it just passes
this name to the archive.
Jörg
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