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Subject: Re: tar vs. cpio
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Date: Wed, 3-Jun-87 16:16:23 EDT
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From: jss@ulysses.uucp (Jerry Schwarz)

One problem with tar format is that it has a fixed 100 character
limit on the length of pathnames.   While this may not have
been a problem in practice, it would be short sighted to adopt
a standard with this limitation.  

[ The format in POSIX 10.1 has a way of handling longer file names. -mod ]

Jerry Schwarz

Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 49