Hi Earnie, cute trick! I work on *ix long enough that I should have remembered tar -O, but that obviously doesn't preserve ownership, permissions and timestamps! Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de) > -----Original Message----- > From: Earnie Boyd [SMTP:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 23:13 > To: Dan Lipofsky > Cc: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' > Subject: Re: tar ball with illegal file names > [Heribert] [snip] > tar --to-stdout -xf foo.tar foo:bar > foobar >> Earnie >> P.S.: tar --help would have given a clue. > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple