Re: bug in tar, anyone fixed it?

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From: David Lemson
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 17:42

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

Also there is some variant of tar that handles >100 char filenames
buried in 3.0, in Installer.app.  I think it's called
installer_bigtar.
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