I BELIEVE this gets around the limits, but it's been
a while. Try some experiements on the tree to see what happens...
Make the file this way:
find . -depth -print | cpio -o | compress -c > ${file_name}.Z
Uncompress it this way:
cat ${file_name}.Z | uncompress -c | cpio -id 2>/dev/null
Stefan Bodewig wrote:
> Conor MacNeill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > So, do we need to support distribution other than by .zip files.
>
> probably yes.
>
> > If so, any ideas on how we should handle the 100 char limit.
>
> only thing one can do is using GNU tar at the command line, as this
> (don't ask me how) manages to circumvent the 100 character limit.
>
> > We could break up the tree into a number of tar files and tar those
> > up. Not sure if that would be considerd acceptable practice.
>
> Don't think this would be accepted by users.
>
> Stefan
>
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