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In article <1asqpiINNpq0@gap.caltech.edu>  writes:
> 
> Robert Frank suggests:
> 
> >> YEP, GNU! get GNUtar... (it's all over the places, on many different  
servers)
> 
> Actually, it's already on your NeXT 3.0 system.  It's called (suprise)
> gnutar.

Stupid me, of course it is, I should have known!

> David Lemson suggests:
> 
> >> 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.
> 
> Right.  I linked it to the name "bigtar" in my path, and I use that
> to manually extract selected items out of NeXT .tar.Z files inside
> ..pkg files, since bigtar is what made them.  I do not know if bigtar
> and gnutar use incompatible methods for storing longer names or not.
> I do know that bigtar and gnutar are different.

From my understanding of GNU tar, using the 'big option' does make the tar  
incompatible to the usual tar.

> 
> Mark Adler
> madler@cco.caltech.edu

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