[rescue] Doh!

Tim H. lists at pellucidar.net
Wed Oct 9 09:16:53 CDT 2002


On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:55:10 +0200
Walter Belgers <walter+rescue at belgers.com> wrote:

> I did see problems with the compatibility between different versions
> of tar. A more obvious problem with tar is that filenames (including
> path) have a maximum length (255 on the top of my head), whereas cpio
> will archive files with arbitrary long names.
> 
> Call me a weirdo, I'll stick with cpio :)
> 
> Walter.

But if you use c3po you can get it translated to 9 million dialects....

Tim (hiding behind something)



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