tar ball with illegal file names

[DJ Delorie]

> >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. 

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/cvs.html

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

You're thinking of djtar, not the djgpp port of GNU tar.  It does have
that functionality.

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