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From: Dan Lipofsky <dlipofsky@kurion.com>
To: "'cygwin@cygwin.com'" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: tar ball with illegal file names
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:44:49 -0600
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I have a tar file which I made on a Linux machine.
Some files inside that tar have names that are
illegal on a NTFS filesystem: they contain
a colon, questionmark, or double-quote.  Is
there anyway to extract these files on a Windows machine?
Both cygwin's tar and winzip just try to extract
under its original name and fail.  I need a tool
that will prompt me or modify the name or something.
Thanks,
Dan

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