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- On 21 May 1996 coyote@step.polymtl.ca wrote:
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- > tar still complains about Long Links.. could it be that GNU tar has a
- > limitation on the number of characters in the names of the files handed
- > to it? I know this is not really the right newsgroup for that but tar
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- I don't know about the linux version of tar, but I encounted the error
- "path name too long" on the NeXTSTEP version of tar; but then I used the
- gnutar instead and everyting was fine...
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- However, I have never encountered any problems like that in Linux. BTW,
- why do you have links for the Mac Program? Just Curious... are these
- links symbolic links or hard links? of course I don't recommend using any
- links at all, but if required, to use symbolic links instead of hard links.
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- Sorry, I went off subject...
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- Lucas.
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