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From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de>
To: "'Earnie Boyd'" <cygwin@cygwin.com>, Dan Lipofsky <dlipofsky@kurion.com>
Subject: RE: tar ball with illegal file names
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:33:23 +0100
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Hi Earnie,

cute trick! I work on *ix long enough that I should
have remembered tar -O, but that obviously doesn't
preserve ownership, permissions and timestamps!

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Earnie Boyd [SMTP:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com]
> Sent:	Monday, January 29, 2001 23:13
> To:	Dan Lipofsky
> Cc:	'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject:	Re: tar ball with illegal file names
> 
	[Heribert]  [snip]

> tar --to-stdout -xf foo.tar foo:bar > foobar
> 
> Earnie
> 
> P.S.: tar --help would have given a clue.
> 

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