Re: bug in tar, anyone fixed it?

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From: Zenon Fortuna
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 13:31

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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?
>> 
>/*****************************************************************************/
>> /*      Ludger Solbach, AB Techn. Inf. VI, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany        
>YEP, GNU! get GNUtar... (it's all over the places, on many different servers)
>--
>Robert Frank                         tel. + (061) 321 99 67                 


I do not understand the answer. The gnutar still has the default NAMSIZ set
to (only ?) 100 characters. Maybe Robert thought about the path length ?

	-Z.

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From: zenon@resonex.com (Zenon Fortuna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
Subject: Re: bug in tar, anyone fixed it?
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Date: 6 Oct 92 13:31:48 GMT
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