Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla 1.2.1 release announcement

[Andrew Suffield]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:32:54AM +1000, address@hidden wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:09:36AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > There does exist a way to generate tar archives which works on most
> > platforms, but it's not that one (and I'm not aware of a tar-like
> > program which does it).
> 
> Actually, all that's needed is to keep the path length
> under the limit, then gnu tar doesn't need to do its
> funky stuff.

Yeah, and "not creating a tar archive" works too, but neither are
particularly useful.

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