>--- Forwarded mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] >"Schrum, Allan (Allan)" writes: >> >> Tar has a limit on the max length of the filenames it will archive. Cpio >> does not seem to have that limit.
>Traditionally, both tar and cpio have limitations, they're just >different. Various "enhanced" versions of the file formats have evolved >over the years, but there's no guarantee that they're portable between >platforms. If you have a more modern archiver such as pax, that's a >better choice. Pax is available on many modern releases of Unix systems. However, even old versions of cpio have the "-c" option that removes the path length limitation. >--- End of forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
