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- From: jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg)
- Subject: bug in tar?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.075535.15572@lth.se>
- Sender: gnulists@ai.mit.edu
- Reply-To: jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg)
- Organization: Lund Institute of Technology
- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 07:55:35 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- I found an interesting anomaly when using the '-C' option (change directory).
- Gtar (1.10) ignores '-C' when I use it together with '-T' (list of files).
- But only when I use gtar locally, -f /dev/xxx.
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- It works fine when I use -f user@host:/dev/xxx.
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- Bug or feature?
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- By the way, are there any plans on changing the mangling of long filenames?
- It's very difficult to get back one mangled file from the backup.
- Especially if the tape has several hundred megabytes mangled files... :-|.
- I have to save the error-log and search for the new mangled filename.
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- Would it not be easier saving the long name as a special file just before
- the real file?
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