Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2002/01/31/11:56:32
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, JT Williams wrote:
> Currently, "Program Files -> ProgFiles" cannot succeed with djtar; scanf
> will see three arguments instead of two unless we introduce (e.g.) a tab-
> delimited format.
>
> But, if someone has a file "Program Files", then they are LFN-ok and
> don't need djtar.
No, I meant the case where the tarball has "Program Files", and we want
it to be converted to ProgFiles during extraction, because the target
filesystem doesn't allow blanks.
> (Is there any way to rename "Program Files" to ProgFiles during a GNU
> tar extraction?
No; that's why we need djtar: it _can_ do that with the -n ChangeFile
option. Are we miscommunicating?
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