On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 20:09, Ludovic Courtès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My understanding of the GNU tar manual is that `o' corresponds to `-o',
> which is specified as follows:
>
> `--no-same-owner'
> `-o'
> When extracting an archive, do not attempt to preserve the owner
> specified in the `tar' archive. This the default behavior for
> ordinary users.
Yes, when the "-o" option is used to un-tar, not to tar.
> So it doesn't relate to "limited path length", does it?
fom the same man page (I guess):
-o, --old-archive, --portability
write a V7 format archive, rather than ANSI format
This limit the size to 99 letters inside the path name.
--
Nicolas Pierron
- If you are doing something twice then you should try to do it once.
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