pkg_tar, pkg_zip: improve support for long paths on Windows (#672) * pkg_zip: improve support for long paths on Windows This commit updates `pkg_zip` and `pkg_tar` to, when running on Windows, convert files' input paths to extended-length paths by (1) making them absolute and then (2) prepending with `\\?\`.
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