Re: tar won't extract all files when a file with exe extension precedes the same without extension inside the archive

[Daniel Colascione]

On 7/13/12 10:26 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> So, everyone, please let this drop unless you have a constructive
> suggestion.

Speaking of pragmatism: what about a CYGWIN environment variable to
turn off the behavior? That way, people like the OP could extract
their archives without worry, and it wouldn't affect the majority of
people. We could go one step beyond that and have rsync, tar, and so
on turn off the feature internally too so that everything just works.

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