Peter Reilly schrieb: > From the ant manual: > "Early versions of tar did not support path lengths greater than 100 > characters. Modern versions of tar do so, but in incompatible ways. The > behaviour of the tar task when it encounters such paths is controlled by > the /longfile/ attribute. If the longfile attribute is set to |fail|, > any long paths will cause the tar task to fail. If the longfile > attribute is set to |truncate|, any long paths will be truncated to the > 100 character maximum length prior to adding to the archive. If the > value of the longfile attribute is set to |omit| then files containing > long paths will be omitted from the archive. Either option ensures that > the archive can be untarred by any compliant version of tar. If the loss > of path or file information is not acceptable, and it rarely is, > longfile may be set to the value |gnu|. The tar task will then produce a > GNU tar file which can have arbitrary length paths. Note however, that > the resulting archive will only be able to be untarred with GNU tar. The > default for the longfile attribute is |warn| which behaves just like the > gnu option except that it produces a warning for each file path > encountered that does not match the limit." > > The tar page that Steve pointed out shows that there is a new posix tar > format that will be used > by gnu tar in the future - ant will probally support that then.
Ok, that answers my question. Thank you. Roland --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
