Re: Bug in GNU tar 1.13

[Paul Eggert]

> From: "McGuire, Rory" <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:17:52 -0800

> If you use GNU tar to create an archive with entries whose paths are greater
> than 100 bytes, Sun's default tar (/usr/sbin/tar) reports "directory
> checksum error" when trying to extract that entry from the archive.

That is a longstanding problem with GNU tar.  Quoting from "tar --help":

  GNU tar cannot read nor produce `--posix' archives.

It would be nice if someone would fix the problem, but it won't be trivial.

(It would also be nice if Sun tar could read GNU tar archive format.  :-)