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In article <1992Oct6.204852.16384@wam.umd.edu> elitman@nxstep.com (Eric A. Litman) writes:
>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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The original posting was about tar-like program which should handle names
longer than 100 characters.
MANY PEOPLE answered, that the gnutar is the solution. Somebody is wrong   :)
because the following test shows, that the gnutar also does not like long
names:

	% echo > /tmp/aaaaa...aaaa	(repeat this 'a' more than 100 times)

	% gnutar cvf /tmp/x.tar /tmp/aaaaa*

	    and the gnutar protests: ...aaaa is too long: mangling to ...

Yes, the /NextAdmin/Installer.app/installer_bigtar accepts longer names,
but the resulted archive-file is not compatible with "normal" tar.

	-Z.

PS
And in the GNUtar sources the NAMSIZ parameter is set to 100.