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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:28:10 +0200 (IST)
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, JT Williams wrote:

> Furthermore, isn't the main reason for using `djtar' to safely extract
> filenames into an 8.3 environment?

Yes, but it's not limited to 8+3 filesystems.  You could, for example, 
have a tarball with filenames using characters that are disallowed even 
by Windows, like `<' or `|', for example.

> If you want to extract "Program files"
> to "My Program Files", then you already have LFN-capable system and you
> don't need djtar in the first place.

That's true, but even "Program Files -> ProgFiles" will not work, I 
think.  Or will it?