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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:50:55 -0500
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Subject: Re: tar ball with illegal file names
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> Ah.  It doesn't sound like this would be useful for a GNU tar port, then.

djtar has a lot of interesting features that are really only useful
for djtar.  However, it does know how to read tar, tar.gz, and zip
files, and deal with all the dos 8.3-isms.

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