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From: young@hamavnet.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: tar crash when filenames greaterthan 14 characters?
Message-ID: <1684.2690c9cf@hamavnet.com>
Date: 3 Jul 90 23:37:35 GMT
Organization: Hamilton Avnet Computer; Culver City, CA
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My first time on so be easy!

I am running Unix System V and I have a tape that was made via tar on a DEC
Ultrix system.  When I tar in the files the ones with more than fourteen
characters cause the utility to bomb with an error.   Should not I just get
truncated files.  This is System V (3.2).

Thanks.


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