[rescue] Doh!

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Oct 9 10:51:31 CDT 2002


On Wednesday, October 9, 2002, at 10:16 AM, Tim H. 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)

   AAARRRRGGGHHH!!!

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