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- From: jss@ulysses.uucp (Jerry Schwarz)
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- 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.
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- [ The format in POSIX 10.1 has a way of handling longer file names. -mod ]
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- Jerry Schwarz
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- Volume-Number: Volume 11, Number 49
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