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Date: | Wed, 1 Jul 1998 11:05:28 +0300 (IDT) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
To: | DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> |
cc: | nate AT cartsys DOT com, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: djgpp alpha 980628 |
In-Reply-To: | <199807010011.UAA04454@delorie.com> |
Message-ID: | <Pine.SUN.3.91.980701110514.12487B-100000@is> |
MIME-Version: | 1.0 |
On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, DJ Delorie wrote: > GNU tar doesn't rename files as they're extracted to fit 8.3 > conventions. Actually, it does ;-). It replaces illegal characters in a manner very similar to what DJTAR does. But Tar is not as flexible as DJTAR when resolving conflicts between file names which *clash* after truncation to 8.3 (you need to use --backup to avoid overwriting, and then rename them manually afterwards).
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