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From: peter@orfeo.radig.de (Peter Radig)
Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug,gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: GNU tar: Problems with filenames of more than 14 chars
Keywords: tar, sys_vs, filenames
Message-ID: <1990Feb5.153048.1824@orfeo.radig.de>
Date: 5 Feb 90 15:30:48 GMT
Reply-To: peter@radig.de (Peter Radig)
Organization: Peter Radig, Frankfurt, West Germany
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Although I know that it is not the primary duty of GNU program authors
to make their programs run on Unix Sys V, I would like to discuss one
problem:

Recently, I got the uunet-tapes and tried to load the TeX sources from
one tape with GNU tar. But the filenames of the sources on this tape
only differ in their last two chars (i.e. char 16 and 17). Since Sys V
allows only filenames with 14 chars, I had no other choice than to load
one file, rename it, load the next file, etc.

Did anyone solve this problem in a quite better manner than I did?
(I think of a extension to GNU tar that allows to remap long filenames
automagically, e.g.

	very_long_filename.1		---> AAfilename.1
	very_long_filename.2		---> AAfilename.2
	another_dirty_filename.aa	---> ABilename.aa
	third_filename_so_looooong	---> ACo_looooong

- Maybe there is another proposal for solving this problem?)

Any hints???

Peter

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