Re: bug in tar, anyone fixed it?

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From: Detlev Droege
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 09:00

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In article <Bvpnv8.1w4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> lemson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (David Lemson)  
writes:
> frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) writes:
> 
> >In article <ti6ls.718300894@tuhhco>  writes:
> >> As the man pages say "The current limit on file name length is 100  
> >characters."
> >> Has anyone fixed this bug?
> >> 
> >YEP, GNU! get GNUtar... (it's all over the places, on many different  
servers)
> 
> 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.

GNU-Tar is included in NeXTSTEP 3.0. It's in /usr/bin/gnutar.
Call 'gnutar +help' for more info. It's apparently Version 1.10.

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