Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:24901 comp.sources.wanted:12959 alt.sources.wanted:475 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!aglew From: aglew@dwarfs.crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sources.wanted,alt.sources.wanted Subject: Wanted: tape archive with long names Message-ID: Date: 22 Aug 90 04:17:23 GMT Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Illinois, Computer Systems Group Lines: 23 Let me phrase this request in two different manners, appropriate to the groups I've posted to: comp.unix.questions: I have a directory tree that contains very long pathnames, > 128 characters. How do I archive this? Tar and gnutar only give me 100 characters, while cpio gives me 128. I know about the -C option. Not acceptable. I do not want to have to change the names. *.sources.wanted: Does anyone know of a PD tape archiver that has no arbitrary name length limit? (or, at least, so large that I am never likely to encounter it. Say 1024 characters) I guess that I got a bit carried away when I came back to BSD from System V with it's 14 character filenames; this limit is, nonetheless, a stupid limit, as are all arbitrary limits. -- Andy Glew, a-glew@uiuc.edu [get ph nameserver from uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:net/qi]