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
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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).