Re: tar file names

On 18 Jan 2007 14:41:12 -0800, kramer31 <kramer.newsreader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi. Can someone tell me what file names are allowed internally in the
tar file format? Can they be stored in unicode or are the other means
to deal with special characters in filenames?

I think any filename you can create, tar can handle. Including names
with spaces. Easy enough to test with a tar -cvf and then a tar -tvf of
some test directories. Let us know what you find ;)
.

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