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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 18:55:42 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, JT Williams wrote:

> Currently, "Program Files -> ProgFiles" cannot succeed with djtar; scanf
> will see three arguments instead of two unless we introduce (e.g.) a tab-
> delimited format.
> 
> But, if someone has a file "Program Files", then they are LFN-ok and
> don't need djtar.

No, I meant the case where the tarball has "Program Files", and we want 
it to be converted to ProgFiles during extraction, because the target 
filesystem doesn't allow blanks.

> (Is there any way to rename "Program Files" to ProgFiles during a GNU
> tar extraction?

No; that's why we need djtar: it _can_ do that with the -n ChangeFile 
option.  Are we miscommunicating?