Just a thought: how about trying a different tar program?? I don't know whether it does support international chars, but Jörg Schilling's star is a tar archiver with -tons- more features than GNU tar. SuSE ships with a really old version (don't use it). Either grab the source of the latest alpha [ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha] or grab my RPMs of it [http://suserpm.sourceforge.net/]. Like I said, I'm not sure whether it does support foreign chars, but I would not be surprised at if it did (and GNU tar didn't). On Friday 14 February 2003 16:26, Oliver Ob wrote:
Hello folks,
this is about TAR and how it copes with the GERMAN letters for ae oe ue.
I have a backup-tgz of my windoze 98 partition and now want to copy it back into a fresh installed system.
The problem is:
tar comes me with "tar: filename: invalid argument cannot open filename" whereever "filename" contains such a char such as \201 and stuff.
I have found out that I for example cannot extract my STARTMENUE folder out of this tar, because the "UE" is a GERMAN char abbreviated or lets call it changed by tar to Startmen\201/ so that it cannot open a directory called like that
This is truely annoying. Where is a workaround this?