<confession>I don't use use Windows very often, and I don't think I have ever used unxutils. </confession>

I have some tools from GnuWin32 loaded on XP in a VM for the times when I need such things. They have two implementations of tar:

I use bsdtar (for some reason my installation of the GNU tools won't unpack gzip'd tar files in a single step; I need to gunzip, then untar... probably just me).

I downloaded your problem archive and was able to use both the BSDtar tools and the GNU tools to unpack that pesky beast with no issues. Both unpacked the directory tree into a directory tree in the current directory (as tar should do w/o instructions to the contrary). Both worked as I expect tar to work when the archive contains multiple instances of the same file (i.e., the last in the archive overwrites previous instances).

<confession_reprise> I don't use use Windows very often. YMMV (but hopefully not by much). </confession_reprise>

In reply to Re^9: [OT] Tar file with non-identical duplicate files and no paths?(A solution) by broomduster
in thread [OT] Tar file with non-identical duplicate files and no paths? by BrowserUk

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