On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 15:28:10 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:

>What the heck is pax trying to tell me?
>
>I enter the command
>
>pax -wvzf /u/maint/myarchive.pax *
>
>and pax responds
>
>FSUM7197 pax: invalid archive format selected: 'foldername'
>
>where foldername is one of the directories in the current path.
>
I believe some archive formats impose harsh limits on the length
of a filename or pathname or even UID.

-- gil

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