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Article #1789Re: bug in tar, anyone fixed it?
From: Mark Adler
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 19:52
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 19:52
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Robert Frank suggests: >> YEP, GNU! get GNUtar... (it's all over the places, on many different servers) Actually, it's already on your NeXT 3.0 system. It's called (suprise) gnutar. David Lemson suggests: >> 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. Right. I linked it to the name "bigtar" in my path, and I use that to manually extract selected items out of NeXT .tar.Z files inside .pkg files, since bigtar is what made them. I do not know if bigtar and gnutar use incompatible methods for storing longer names or not. I do know that bigtar and gnutar are different. Mark Adler madler@cco.caltech.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!ogicse!cs.uoregon.edu!sgiblab!adagio.panasonic.com!nntp-server.caltech.edu!madler From: madler@cco.caltech.edu (Mark Adler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Subject: Re: bug in tar, anyone fixed it? Message-ID: <1asqpiINNpq0@gap.caltech.edu> Date: 6 Oct 92 19:52:18 GMT Article-I.D.: gap.1asqpiINNpq0 References: <ti6ls.718300894@tuhhco> <1992Oct6.084806.10760@urz.unibas.ch> <Bvpnv8.1w4@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena Lines: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu