Re: [PATCH] support filename prefixes and 100-character filenames in tar-mode.el

[David Glasser]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Juri Linkov <address@hidden> wrote:
> > With all of the patch except for the change in the initial
>  > initialization of name-end, the results look correct, except the
>  > penultimate line ends in "foo2" instead of "foo20"; that is because
>  > the name field here fill the entire field with no nulls, but the code
>  > previously assumed there would be at least one null.  (It's possible
>  > that similar adjustments are required for the initial values of
>  > link-end, gname-end, and uname-end.)
>
>  Does your patch also handle @LongLink currently unsupported by tar-mode.el?

Is it actually unsupported?  When I tried to make a tarball to test
this issue with GNU tar, I saw stuff about "@LongLink" when I opened
it in tar-mode.  (Try making a tarball from the one I sent using GNU
tar; you'll see what I mean; I made my test tarball with pax, since
that was what was used to make the one I opened when I first noticed
this issue.)  I don't know if it was correct or not, though.

--dave

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