Re: bug in tar, anyone fixed it?

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From: David Lemson
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 21:39

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frank@ifi.unibas.ch (Robert Frank) writes:

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

That's right, when it mangles the filenames, it stores the legend of
what they're supposed to translate to in a table that normal tar
doesn't know what to do with.  But once you have GNU tar, there's no
reason to go back to old tar.   :-)
(at least not for backups, which is probably what you're using these
tars for)
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Subject: Re: bug in tar, anyone fixed it?
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