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- Submitted-by: Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
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- david@mks.com (David Rowley) writing about PAX:
- > larger field sizes for dates, times, file lengths, etc.
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- And also, something that nor tar nor cpio have: large file names.
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- The current limit of around 100-128 characters for the filename
- is catastrophic. Simply too short!
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- Also I guess users would appreciate: the ability to archive
- in absolute format and restore in relative. Not all users do
- relative archives. And one knows how dangerous an absolute
- archive can be. Even when I get a tape from the oustide I prefer
- being able to restore it in relative mode, without having to
- check before it all files on the archive are or not absolute.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 60
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