I have a backup from a Windows machine, I can uncompress everything I need without problems, but I've found that I have to take folders one by one because Freearc crashes when it founds a file with an strange name.

The file is an old cache file from IE, and has a terribly long name, with commas, exclamations and almost all characters that could knock out a Windows file system.

Is there any way to tell arc not to try to extract those files, so it doesn't crash when trying to write them?

I can't make -x work. I've tried with -xContent.IE5 and -x*Content.IE5* (this string is part of the filename). Hey, I've found how to block it, the key was that -x only works with the name of the file, but ignores the path (I think it's probably a design fail). No, in the documentation you can read the next paragraph: "For excluding the whole directory use "-xdir/*".".

So, this is just an error report: FreeArc crashes with broken compressed files, instead of launching a warning and giving the option of continue working. Or maybe continue working anyway, as other compressors do?