[Sunhelp] SunOS 4.1.3 & long file names & tar

Will Lowe lowe at asel.udel.edu
Thu Nov 18 16:48:32 CST 1999


> > and Samba 1.8
> > to another SPARC box running Solaris 2.7. Using tar from the
> > SunOS box, I
> > get the message: "file name too long".
> >
> > Is there any other solution for this problem?

You could install rsync,  which is (in many cases) easier to use than tar
for system-to-system copies.

http://rsync.samba.org/
                     					Will


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