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From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de>
To: "'Dan Lipofsky'" <dlipofsky AT kurion DOT com>,
        "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'"
	 <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: tar ball with illegal file names
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:20:50 +0100
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Hi Dan,

instead of seaching such a tool, since I don't know of one,
I'd go to a nearby Linux or other *ix box with enough disk
space, untar, rename, and tar again!

Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Dan Lipofsky [SMTP:dlipofsky AT kurion DOT com]
> Sent:	Monday, January 29, 2001 22:45
> To:	'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'
> Subject:	tar ball with illegal file names
> 
> 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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