Re: bug in tar, anyone fixed it?

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From: Eric A. Litman
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 20:48

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Ludger Solbach (ti6ls@tuhhco.rz.tu-harburg.de) wrote:
: As the man pages say "The current limit on file name length is 100 characters."
: Has anyone fixed this bug?

GNU tar is definitely the answer, but it is not necessary to "get" it off of
some archive site somewhere. Under 3.0, it's /usr/bin/gnutar.

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