Xref: utzoo gnu.utils.bug:804 gnu.misc.discuss:782 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ark1!nems!mimsy!mojo!mojo!djm From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: GNU tar: Problems with filenames of more than 14 chars Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 90 23:32:07 GMT References: <1990Feb5.153048.1824@orfeo.radig.de> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (The News System) Organization: University of Maryland Lines: 12 In-Reply-To: peter@orfeo.radig.de's message of 5 Feb 90 15:30:48 GMT > 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. An option to resolve name clashes (like Kermit's) might be useful even to BSD users. If it is about to extract a file that already exists, it changes the name of the file it is about to create so that it is similar, but unique. -- David J. MacKenzie