If you've built the UIMA distribution you may have noticed lots of warning messages like: [WARNING] Entry: uimaj-2.1.0-incubating-SNAPSHOT/uimaj-tools/src/test/resources/ pearTests/pearMergerTests/uima.example.DateTime.pear longer than 100 characters.
Here is an articlethat discusses the issue: http://www.itworld.com/nl/unix_insider/07242003/. Apparently some versions of tar won't be able to extract our archive. It works fine on a Linux box with GNU tar 1.13.25. However it failed to extract when I tried it from cygwin, even though it has a newer version of GNU tar, 1.16. The error I got is: tar: A lone zero block at 86945. I actually don't know if this is related to the long file name problem. In both cases I'm using gnu tar so I'm not sure why there would be a problem. I'm not sure how significant this is or what can be done about it. -Adam
