checking further, zip compression actually solved for my delivery
(despite any permissions matter)
....
Daniele Bonini <my2...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a folder that - porting things to different destinations - I'm
> trying to tar here and there.
>
> I'm coming from Debian with an #mb file tar and it is all fine.
>
> But when it is matter to deliver things from OpenBSD eg. to other
> live destination taring the same stuff I get the following error:
>
> tar: File name too long for ustar
> "go/Pippo/Pluto_Pluto_Pluto_Pluto/pippo/EN/pippo pippo pippo pippo
> technical assistance and sale of appliances emergency service
> throughout the pippo area pippo pippo superpippopippo.com"
>
> and these folder and files doesn't comes compressed at all.
>
> If I try with the Archive Utility generating the same tar
> doesn't give me the best result..at all:
> Archive chooses independently links to transform them in folder
> further then respecting the folder structures; also double links for
> the same destination are present in the resulting tar.
>
> I'm not sure where is matter of Posix file system restrictions
> boundaries and when we can talk about "bugs". Archive seems really
> drunk, Terminal a little less, but doesn't take to any happiness..
>
> Despite any technical hint about OpenBSD.. am I forgetting any
> compression option for the required resolution?
>
> Appreciated!
>
> -- Daniele Bonini
