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In article <1avjb7INN848@gap.caltech.edu> madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) writes:
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>Zenon Fortuna admirably does some testing and concludes:
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>>> The original posting was about tar-like program which should handle names
>>> longer than 100 characters.
>>> MANY PEOPLE answered, that the gnutar is the solution. Somebody is wrong   :)
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>gnutar is indeed *a* solution.  You did not follow your test through to
>its conclusion, which is to reextract the files.  Yes, the names (including
>paths) longer than 100 characters get renamed to @@MaNgLeD.n, where n is
>an integer.
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>I said "a" solution as opposed to "the" solution, since this doesn't
>help when you want to extract a particular file without extracting all
>of them.  There may be a way to do that with gnutar that I don't know,
>are extracted.  Actually, let me try that ...
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>Hmm, doesn't quite work.  A "gnutar xvf - @@MaNgLeD.\*" got all the
>files like that, but at the end it was not able to rename them to where
>they belonged, since the directories did not exist.  I might call this a
>bug in gnutar ...
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>Mark Adler
>madler@cco.caltech.edu

Yes, gnutar works but is very limited in its handling of looong names.

But, if someone can accept "cpio(1)", then this utility works OK.
Try the commands:

	% find . -print | cpio -o > file_name		(to create archive)
	% cpio -it < file_name				(to make listing)
	% cpio -i 'selected_name' < file_name		(to extract)

and this works for all lengths of file- and directory names.

	-Z.