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. -- I believe in Karma. That means I can do bad things to people all day long and I assume they deserve it. Dogbert -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list