Re: [Bug-tar] mac os x or general charset problem patch

[Heiko Voigt]

Quoting Paul Eggert <address@hidden>:

> It sounds reasonable for tar, as an option, to mangle file names that
> aren't retrievable due to OS limitations.  But that is a feature
> request, not a bug.  I doubt whether unusable names should be mangled
> by default, as that would be a pretty big change to common practice.
>
> In POSIX-conforming systems the issue comes up only with file names
> that contain NUL bytes, or which end in '/' even though the files are
> not directories.  This could be addressed by the same
> feature-enhancement, I suppose.
>
> There is a similar issue with file name components that are too long,
> and it also could be handled by mangling file names (I guess with the
> same user option).

In this case I would like to file a feature request for GNU tar. Should I help
with the development somehow?

By the way, as Joerg always seemed to talk about star. Are the created archives
compatible to the ones of GNU tar? I've just seen that it has its own archive
format manpage which gives me the impression there are some differences.

Joerg: How would one specify bytes for the regular expressions like
/(latin1)"a/ae/ with the -s option?

bye Heiko