Author: bodewig Date: Sat Jul 23 03:12:27 2011 New Revision: 1149787 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1149787&view=rev Log: we can read the GNU variant of long file names in AR.
Modified: ant/antlibs/compress/trunk/docs/expand.html Modified: ant/antlibs/compress/trunk/docs/expand.html URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/ant/antlibs/compress/trunk/docs/expand.html?rev=1149787&r1=1149786&r2=1149787&view=diff ============================================================================== --- ant/antlibs/compress/trunk/docs/expand.html (original) +++ ant/antlibs/compress/trunk/docs/expand.html Sat Jul 23 03:12:27 2011 @@ -101,6 +101,12 @@ mapper</a>.</p> <p>An <a href="#expand">unarchiving task</a> for TAR archives.</p> +<p>Traditionally the AR format doesn't allow file names longer than 16 + characters. There are two variants that circumvent this limitation + in different ways, the GNU/SRV4 and the BSD variant. Currently (as + of 1.2) Commons Compress can only read archives using the GNU/SRV4 + variant.</p> + <h3><a name="unzip">UnZip</a></h3> <p>An <a href="#expand">unarchiving task</a> for ZIP archives.</p>