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From: frank@croton.enet.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
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Subject: Re: Tar - max filename length 100; why ?
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Date: 8 Oct 90 15:34:12 GMT
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Reply-To: frank@croton.enet.dec.com (Frank Wortner)
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Remember my previous article on this subject?   Well, forget it! ;-)

I said:

> If you need to archive or interchange files with long (>100 character)
> names, you could consider GNU tar, cpio, dump, or, perhaps, a
> program of your own concoction.

GNU tar suffers from the same disease as all other tars, although a someone
seems to have thought about adding longer file names --- just *thought*,
mind you;  there's no code dealing with this problem.  Cpio can handle names
longer than 100 characters.  Unfortunately, it has a limitation of 128
characters.  :-(

Sigh!

				A Frustrated Frank

P.S.  My previous article's history lesson about tp, tar, and V7 is
correct.  I'm
old enough to have lived through conversion from the Sixth Edition to the
Seventh.  8-)