On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 01:46:50AM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:44:11PM -0600, John Hein wrote: > > Someone may already know about this, but using gtar > 1.15.1 and > > amanda < 2.5.1 will not work very well. > > > > The format of the "listed incremental" file has changed. Among other > > things, the entries are now separated by '\0' "null" bytes rather than > > newlines. [I'm not exactly sure why since it doesn't save any space > > and I don't think '\n' is a valid character in a posix file name]. > > After a quick search I did not find a reference for this, but I'd > be surprised if posix did not allow \n as a valid file name char. > For the multiple decades I've used unix, it has always been valid. > If not specifically allowed, it may be one of those undefined > things that leaves it to the locale or character set.
I just missed it. Only characters not allowed are slash '/' and null byte '\0'. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 12027 Creekbend Drive (703) 787-0884 Reston, VA 20194 (703) 787-0922 (fax)
