Jargons of Info Tech industry

Roger Leigh ${rleigh} at invalid.whinlatter.ukfsn.org.invalid
Tue Aug 23 17:28:26 EDT 2005


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Ulrich Hobelmann <u.hobelmann at web.de> writes:

> Keith Thompson wrote:
>> "Xah Lee" <xah at xahlee.org> writes:
>> [the usual]

> At least he noticed that tar sucks.  There's nothing better than tarring 
> your backup back to disk, only to notice that the pathnames were "too 
> long."  Great!

That's been fixed for quite some time, though.  The current GNU tar
(1.15.1) writes POSIX.1-2001 (PAX) archives, and has read them for
quite a long time before.


Regards,
Roger

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