Re: [Bug-tar] tar doesn't handle some tarballs created under Microsoft Windows

[Joerg Schilling]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> \ is a valid character in an ordinary Unix file name; it is not a
> directory separator.  tar must be able to extract such file names, and
> in your case it is doing so correctly as I understand it.
>
> It might be reasonable to add an option to GNU tar that says "treat \
> as a directory separator when extracting", but this behavior should
> not be the default.  But personally I think such an option should be
> low priority, as people using tar on Windows should learn to use /
> rather than \ when specifying file names.

I don't think it makes sense to add this kind of "feature".

MS_WIN allows to use the standard '/' path name separator in it's native
system interfaces. If people use the official path separator, everything
works as expected.

Jörg

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