-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Boemker, Tim on 6/17/2008 1:41 PM: | | If I create the file by other means, other Cygwin commands are able to | access the file; the problem is specific to GNU tar. My understanding | is that the posix format supports filenames of unlimited length. Is | this a bug in tar?
Most likely not a tar bug, but a fundamental limitation of your file system. Just because the tar file format supports long names doesn't mean Windows has to. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhZoNgACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCwaQCeLLhAkGmv6H7xP3hNxbANtA2V RiMAoNNIRC4eSYUhynBAIwwa+M20tbyX =L/23 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
