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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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- Subject: Re: Your chance to contribute to new POSIX archive format
- Date: 25 Jul 1992 18:21:38 -0700
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- Submitted-by: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
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- >Submitted-by: Christophe.Wolfhugel@univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
- >The current limit of around 100-128 characters for the filename
- >is catastrophic. Simply too short!
-
- Actually, the 1003.1 tar format accommodates 255. Still a bit tight
- for some people.
-
- >Also I guess users would appreciate: the ability to archive
- >in absolute format and restore in relative...
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- This is really a user-interface issue, not a format issue. There's no
- reason why tar couldn't have had some sort of renaming facility from
- the start (and we certainly are long overdue to have it added).
- --
- There is nothing wrong with making | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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- Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 61
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