Re: tar ball with illegal file names

[DJ Delorie]

> 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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