Re: Your chance to contribute to new POSIX archive format

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From: Henry Spencer
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 01:21

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Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)

>Submitted-by: Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
>The current limit of around 100-128 characters for the filename
>is catastrophic. Simply too short!

Actually, the 1003.1 tar format accommodates 255.  Still a bit tight
for some people.

>Also I guess users would appreciate: the ability to archive
>in absolute format and restore in relative...

This is really a user-interface issue, not a format issue.  There's no
reason why tar couldn't have had some sort of renaming facility from
the start (and we certainly are long overdue to have it added).
-- 
There is nothing wrong with making      | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry


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