On Monday, October 29, 2001 6:38, you wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to use tar to backup my data - is there some simple way,
> how to make it use my national language characters in names
> of files and directories (eg. ecaron and so on) instead
> of the question marks? it shows them  also when I use ls.
> In my 'big distribution' it works fine.

To fix the question marks in ls, use --show-control-chars.  However, my ls 
man page says that this is the default... most likely we're using different 
versions of GNU ls.

If this fixes things, then try tarring and untarring something and then use 
ls to see if tar broke anything or not.

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Andy Goth  |  [EMAIL PROTECTED]  |  http://null.cc.uic.edu/~andy/
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