On 2011-12-22, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On 2011-12-19, Frank Astier wrote:
> Later versions of tar support workarounds (namely ustar later used by > GNU tar and BSD tar aswell) and even later the newer POSIX standard > added PAX extension headers to address this (and other things like file > names longer than 100 characters). > The trunk of Commons Compress supports both ustar and PAX by now but the > latest release of it doesn't. I expect the next release of Commons > Compress to happen pretty soon, though. s/ustar/star/ It is Jörg Schilling's tar implementation that pioneered the binary representation of entry sizes that allows for a much bigger maximum size. Stefan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org
