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In article <1992Oct6.133148.12377@resonex.com> zenon@resonex.com (Zenon  
Fortuna) writes:
> 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?
> >> 
>  
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> >> /*      Ludger Solbach, AB Techn. Inf. VI, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany        
> >YEP, GNU! get GNUtar... (it's all over the places, on many different  
servers)
> >--
> >Robert Frank                         tel. + (061) 321 99 67                 
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> 
> I do not understand the answer. The gnutar still has the default NAMSIZ set
> to (only ?) 100 characters. Maybe Robert thought about the path length ?
> 
Gnutar DOES backup files with path names longer than 100 characters.  But it  
does it by "mangling" the name to something shorter.  Then at the end, it  
writes out a special file that relates the mangled names to the true names.

This doesn't really work perfectly; the verify option can't verify them.  And I  
believe that the only way to get the files properly demangled is to restore the  
entire archive.  Or to keep a list of them yourself and do it manually.

This may have changed in the latest Gnutar.