Re: bug in tar, anyone fixed it?

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From: Art Isbell
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 05:51

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In article <Bvpnv8.1w4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson) writes:
>Also there is some variant of tar that handles >100 char filenames
>buried in 3.0, in Installer.app.  I think it's called
>installer_bigtar.

My backup script has broken pretty badly under 3.0 with more file names
containing space and upper ASCII characters.  So I just don't back up such
files since they tend to be system files or MiniExamples.

But the long path problem has plagued me as well, so I tried installer_bigtar.
It seems to be a good news/bad news story.  It doesn't seem to create a table
of contents (-t reports nothing).  -v prints nothing.  Either tar or gtar
complains about the installer_tar file format (can't remember which).  So I'd
recomment caution before depending on installer_tar; gnutar (1.10) is in
/usr/bin and seems to support long paths, but in a slightly different way than
the current gnutar (1.11.1).
-- 

Art Isbell                                                      Cubic Solutions
NeXT Registered Developer #745         NeXT software development and consulting
Email: isbell@cats.UCSC.EDU                                Voice: (408)335-1154
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Subject: Re: bug in tar, anyone fixed it?
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