Re: [Bug-tar] Prb with tar

[Gunnar Ritter]

Joerg Schilling <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sergey, 
>
> before you answer, please try to understand the problem!
>
> Sun tar does not (yet) uses pax archives for very long file names
> but the archive format that pax was based on...
>
> AFAIK, star is the only free implementation that supports this format.

<http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/> and
<http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/> support it too. Since all what is
necessary to do this when reading is to treat an 'X' like an 'x', it
can hardly be claimed that there is something exceptional with it.

        Gunnar