Re: bug in tar, anyone fixed it?

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From: Darcy BROCKBANK
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 03:15

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In article <1992Oct6.084806.10760@urz.unibas.ch> frank@ifi.unibas.ch 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?


Actually, try out /NextAdmin/Installer.app/installer_bigtar

It is NOT NOT compatible with "tar" but works fine for over 100
character lines.

- darcy

>> 
>> 
>>  
>/*****************************************************************************/
>> /*      Ludger Solbach, AB Techn. Inf. VI, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany        
>*/
>> /*                         Tel.: 040/7718-3357                                
>*/
>> /*                   Email: solbach@tu-harburg.dbp.de                         
>*/
>>  
>/*****************************************************************************/
>
>YEP, GNU! get GNUtar... (it's all over the places, on many different servers)
>--
>Robert Frank                         tel. + (061) 321 99 67                 
>Institut fuer Informatik             fax  + (061) 321 99 15                 
>University of Basel, Switzerland                                            
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>                   ( if all fails try frank@urz.unibas.ch )

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