That is exactly what I did. Unfortunately, when the path includes multiple directories with more than dozens of characters per directory name, it doesn't take long to exceed 100 characters.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010 8:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: tar limitation preventing SAS install On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 10:50:58 -0500, Veilleux, Jon L wrote: >Would it help to create a symbolic link to the file with a shorter path name? > Errr... On Windows, where the data are lodged? (But it might help to "cd" into the hierarchy and build the ".tar" from there. If that's how tar works on Windows. If anything works on Windows.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
