tar ball with illegal file names

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Mon Jan 29 16:35:00 GMT 2001


On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 05:43:31PM -0600, Mumit Khan wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> I think that DJGPP already has something like this, actually.  Did you
>> adapt it from DJGPP by any chance?
>
>Wish I had looked at DJGPP back then, but I don't believe I was even
>aware of that project back then. I'll download the source archives from
>djgpp and take a look. Mine was rather primitive, and had enough holes
>to sail a tanker through. 

I hope I haven't just imagined this functionality.  I think I recall both
Eli Zaretski and DJ talking about it.

cgf

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