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- At 07:42 PM 5/21/96 GMT, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
- >spirit encourages deeply nested folders and *long* file names such as
- >"My favorite high school term paper from 9'th grade". (Allowing spaces
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- That's the longest filename Macs will allow - 31 characters, thus with
- the default settings tar can handle three levels with full length
- filenames. Of course, on an ext2 filesystem, you're tempted to create
- 255 character filenames (DON'T DO IT! they're a pain to type)
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- Ian
- vmeister@ios.com
- http://styx.ios.com/~vmeister/
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