Re: tar

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From: Kevin Rodgers
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:08

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In article <9207241130.AA07651@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) writes:
>   From: burkhold@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca (Thomas Kelly Burkholder)
>   Keywords: tar MaNgLeD
>   Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 18:24:06 GMT
>
>   Can anyone tell me why some files are replaced by "@@MaNgLeD.?" when I use  
>   gnu tar 1.10 to archive directories?
>
>Names which are too long to fit within the limits of the tar format
>get their names changed in this manner.  At the end of the tar file is
>a special record, however.  When extracting, if you let tar complete
>(rather than interrupting it part way through), it will read this
>special record, and rename the files back to their normal names.

Is this a feature, or should tar catch the relevant signals and assure
that the extracted files have their original names restored?
-- 
Kevin Rodgers				kevin@traffic.den.mmc.com
Martin Marietta MS A16401		(303) 790-3971
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