Could be that the standard for tar specifies a max length and that gnu tar either uses some extension for longer names, or it just doesn't care.
2014-05-07 11:05 GMT+02:00 Robert Connolly <[email protected]>: > Why does BSD tar complain about long file names, and GNU does not? > > I'm running amd64. > > Thanks > > -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.

