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 X-Authentication-Warning: hp2.xraylith.wisc.edu: khan owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:20:09 -0600 (CST) From: Mumit Khan To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: tar ball with illegal file names In-Reply-To: <200101300050.TAA13722@envy.delorie.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, DJ Delorie wrote: > 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. Ah, another name for pax ;-) This sounds like a very useful tool, and Cygwin could use such a versatile tool, except that we don't have to worry about the dos 8.3-ism part. One of these days when I'm bored ... Regards, Mumit -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple