On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Marcel Schutte wrote: > Hi, > > I just stumbled on a hard 100 character limitation for the combined path and > filename of a tar entry. Its existence is more than obvious from the ant > code, but a solution seems a lot less simple. A bit of searching gave me the > following link (http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar/html_mono/tar.html#SEC112), > where there is an explanation of the difference between POSIX and GNU > versions of tar. > > Does anyone know whether there is -one- way of handling longer paths in > tars? I am willing to do some coding, but I want to be sure of the specs to > follow.
DAMN ! Thanks I just been trying to figure out why two files were included in zip and not tar and this is it. Unfortuantely I do not think there is any solution as such - the way gnu-tar does it is a hack and will go away in future but POSIX compliance is again found to a lacking quality :(. Cheers, Pete *--------------------------------------------------* | Latrobe University, | Does the name 'Pavlov' | | Bundoora, Australia | ring a bell ? | *--------------------------------------------------*
