Re: bug in tar, anyone fixed it?

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From: Bob Peirce #305
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:17

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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?
>
>YEP, GNU! get GNUtar... (it's all over the places, on many different servers)
>--
However, the one that comes on the NeXT in /usr/bin/gnutar doesn't
really fix the problem exactly.  When it encounters a path that is too
long it converts it to something like %%mangled1 and displays this info
on the terminal window.  You have to make a note of it in order to
recover the file to the right place.  Somebody says this is an older
version of gnutar so a newer version might do the right thing. 
-- 
Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA         rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us         412-471-5320
venetia@investor.pgh.pa.us [NeXT Mail]  !uunet.uu.net!pitt!investor!rbp [UUCP]

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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: bug in tar, anyone fixed it?
Message-ID: <1992Oct12.171738.6190@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 12 Oct 92 17:17:38 GMT
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