> > On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, steve rader wrote:
 > > >Also, here's one more reason to avoid tar: it has a 100 char
 > > >max file name length restriction.  I suspect cpio and certainly
 > > >dd don't have that problem.
 
 > Net Llama! wrote:
 > > Huh?  Where is this documented?  I'm pretty sure i've never run into this
 > > before.
 
 > From: Jim Bonnet
 > hm.. well, I think this is a SUN thing, and an old-school tar problem as 
 > well..Have a quick google check its there.

..and also more recently/now that busybox tar thingie...

 "tar: Names longer than 100 chars not supported"

steve
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