Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:35:16 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Re: tar ball with illegal file names Message-ID: <20010129193516.A5500@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: Cygwin Mailing List References: <20010129183548.A4257@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: ; from khan@NanoTech.Wisc.EDU on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:43:31PM -0600 On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:43:31PM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote: >On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote: > >> I think that DJGPP already has something like this, actually. Did you >> adapt it from DJGPP by any chance? > >Wish I had looked at DJGPP back then, but I don't believe I was even >aware of that project back then. I'll download the source archives from >djgpp and take a look. Mine was rather primitive, and had enough holes >to sail a tanker through. I hope I haven't just imagined this functionality. I think I recall both Eli Zaretski and DJ talking about it. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple