Am 17.02.2016 um 01:01 schrieb Uwe Stöhr <uwesto...@web.de>: > > Am 16.02.2016 um 20:06 schrieb Georg Baum: > >> I would formulate it differently: There is a problem with extracting the >> tar with the tool Uwe used. > > It is a simple path name length restriction. In the tar the path cannot be > longer than > > lyx-2.2.0beta2\3rdparty\boost\boost\numeric\conversion\detail\preprocessed\numeric_cast_traits_long_ > > These are 100 characters. All paths longer than 100 chars are truncated. > Since Windows itself does not support tar, I use WinRar. Maybe this program > has a bug or the tar specs have a limitation on Windows. > > However, the Zip is only 3 MB larger than the Tar. so why not using Zip in > future? I don't think that the 3 MB more are important.
Zip has another problem. The encoding of the file names is undefined. Stephan
