On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Jim Bonnet wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Huh?  Where is this documented?  I'm pretty sure i've never run into this
> > before.
> >
> hm.. well, I think this is a SUN thing, and an old-school tar problem as
> well..Have a quick google check its there.

It is a Sun problem.  That's the only place i've ever seen it.  Sorry, but
i use tar alot more than i run into disk IO problems.  I think i'll stick
with Linux, thank you.

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