Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!erbe.se!prc From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: Consistency checking scripts... Message-ID: <1990Oct22.185817.1739@erbe.se> Date: 22 Oct 90 18:58:17 GMT References: Organization: ERBE DATA AB, Jakobsberg, Sweden Lines: 19 In a recent article aglew@crhc.uiuc.edu (Andy Glew) writes: > Ensure that none of the relative pathnames below your working >directories ($HOME, etc.) exceed, say, 95 characters in length - >because tar has a limit at 100 characters, and cpio has a limit at 128 >characters (on my SUN, at least). This leads me to express this major question that has sprung to my mind several times during the last few years: *WHY* hasn't anyone designed a portable archive and backup format that can handle at least as long pathnames as a UNIX system allows, ie 1024 characters? -- Robert Claeson |Reasonable mailers: rclaeson@erbe.se ERBE DATA AB | Dumb mailers: rclaeson%erbe.se@sunet.se | Perverse mailers: rclaeson%erbe.se@encore.com These opinions reflect my personal views and not those of my employer.