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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!sadye.emba.uvm.edu!wollman From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Subject: Re: TAR Restrictions Message-ID: <1993Mar25.185535.8980@uvm.edu> Keywords: tar Sender: news@uvm.edu Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility References: <936@Bart.datafox.ch> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1993 18:55:35 GMT Lines: 32 In article <936@Bart.datafox.ch> root@Bart.datafox.ch (Peer Schmitz) writes: >Hello unix freaks, oh mighty ones. Be careful who you're calling a ``freak'', lowly supplicant... >This is a mega pain as my directory structure is pretty nested. >Question : How can I get around the restriction of max 100 characters >in the filename? >Is there a new version of tar that allows more that runs on Ultrix 4.2bsd? I would strongly recommend that you get GNU tar. (You should do this anyway.) In addition to many other useful features designed to make `tar' more appropriate for backups, GNU tar includes a feature which allows filenames longer than 100 characters to be archived, by changing their names to fit and storing the true names in a separate archive entry. GNU tar also stores full user/group names in the tar file, rather than numbers, has support for multi-volume and compressed archives, and several other features. It is available by anonymous FTP from aeneas.mit.edu, ftp.uu.net, gatekeeper.dec.com, wuarchive.wustl.edu, src.doc.ic.ac.uk, and other archive sites (please try the one that's closest to you, they all have the same version). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant