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From: Michael I Bushnell
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 03:30

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   Resent-Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 18:24:06 GMT
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   From: burkhold@gdss.commerce.ubc.ca (Thomas Kelly Burkholder)
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   Keywords: tar MaNgLeD
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   Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 18:24:06 GMT

   First, I realize this is possibly the wrong forum for this question, but  
   since I've had no response from my post to gnu.misc.discuss, I thought I'd  
   try here:

This is the right place.  Tar is a GNU utility, hence, bug-gnu-utils
is the right list.

   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.

	-mib

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