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From: Michael I Bushnell
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1992 11:21

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   >   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?

It doesn't know the relevant names until it reads a special record at
the end of the archive.  Thought is being expended on ways to improve
this.

	-mib

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