[Sunhelp] SunOS 4.1.3 & long file names & tar

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Lockwood [mailto:lockwood at ISI.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, November 18, 1999 1:58 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [Sunhelp] SunOS 4.1.3 & long file names & tar
> 
> 
> On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Wes Hofmann wrote:
> 
> > GNU tar supports long filenames. You can download the source from
> > ftp.gnu.org but I have no idea where you'll be able to find 
> binaries for
> > SunOS 4.1.3.  Hope this helps!
> 
> gnutar breaks the tar standard in several ugly ways.  I 
> highly recommend
> the faster and more conformant star, available from:

Can somebody explain how it "breaks" the "standard"?  I just tried to untar
the sgmltools source on Solaris7 and it didn't work, but when I used the
gnu-tar that I just compiled it worked fine.  I'd sort of like to see what I
can do to fix this, so that it works with either(any?) version of tar.  The
error that Solaris7 tar gives me is 'tar: directory checksum error', if
you're interested.  Thanks,
	Greg