I've been trying to get about 4GB of files off a Unix server onto a PC,
using gnu tar on the Unix (Solaris) end and cygwin gnu tar on the PC.
Things go OK when packing the tar file ( just -jcvf as the options), but
unpacking on the PC I get errors about filenames too long, files existing
when links are unpacked (OK Windows doesn't support links), and finally I
get
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
I'm not entirely sure what this means. Does it mean
* the job completed successfully apart from the earlier errors,
which now give this error exit.
* the job hit one error too many and died before the end?
My other question is, which I can't see from the help exactly:
Can I tell tar to truncate filenames that are too long (possibly
being warned if there are collisions as a result? Do I need to
do that at creation?
I think I may need to recreate the tarfile with -h to get arond the
link options. That's disappointing, because it took a long time on
this old Sun machine. If there's a way round re-creating it I'd be
grateful to know about that.
Thank you,
Hugh
