Roger Leigh wrote:
>> At least he noticed that tar sucks. There's nothing better than tarring
>> your backup back to disk, only to notice that the pathnames were "too
>> long." Great!
>
> That's been fixed for quite some time, though. The current GNU tar
> (1.15.1) writes POSIX.1-2001 (PAX) archives, and has read them for
> quite a long time before.
Don't remember where it bit me. Either Free- or NetBSD, or Mac OS 10.3,
but it was sometime after 2002... probably not GNU tar, though.
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