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Subject: Re: tar, win-path conversion bug
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On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 09:34:02PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>According to Linda Walsh on 7/25/2006 7:09 PM:
>>I think I've run into a bug concerning "tar" and the use of windows
>>format paths.  It's not a bug that is difficult to work around, but it
>>still seems as though it is a bug that someone may wish to address (in
>>their spare time, of course :-).
>
>It's certainly not the highest priority on my list.  I would just stick
>with POSIX paths.

What a crazy idea.

cgf

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