BVK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have seen many people cursing GNU tar as not being compatible
> with other tars. Can anyone tell me how GNU tar is incompatible with
> other tars? Any pointers please?
>
> All i found was other tars do not support long pathnames (more than
> 100 characters). Are there any more differences?
There is a standard on how to archive path names longer than 100 chars.
This POSIX standard is from 1988 and ignored by GNU tar by default.
As a result, most other tar implementations are unable to extract GNU tar
archives in case they contain path names longer than 100 chars.
Jörg
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