Jay Fenlason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GNU tar uses a variety of ugly hacks to get around the 100 (original > tar) or 255 (ustar) character limit in file and path names. > Unfortunatly, only gnu tar can correctly extract such archives.
Well, there are at least two independent implementations that can extract this format (star and FreeBSD's new libarchive-based tar), but yes, it is in questionable taste. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
