>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

[...]
 Paul> the existing code uses the -o option, which is [not portable]
[...]

Speaking about `o', I've just discovered that `missing' contains
some magic to strip that flag when tar fails, and retry.

It means that Roger's troubles should vanish once tar is changed
to report filenames too long for `o' with $? != 0.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz



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