"Felix Riemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Using >$ tar xf FILE.tar >where FILE contains colons (in my case, FILE contained the time in >HH:MM:SS) does not seem to work.
Yes. It's a feature, not a bug. See the tar option '--force-local'. If you want that option to be the default, consider using the TAR_OPTIONS environment variable. -- Wer mir E-Mail schreiben will, stelle | When writing me e-mail, please bitte vor meine E-Mail-Adresse meinen | precede my e-mail address with Vor- und Nachnamen, etwa so: | my full name, like Helmut Waitzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, (Helmut Waitzmann) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
