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From: "peter a. cejchan" <pac@next.gli.cas.cz>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] longnamelist
Date: Mon,  8 Apr 2002 13:01:08 +0000
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boyd@strakt.com (Boyd Roberts) wrote in message news:<200204050135.g351ZuUL031489@theraft.strakt.com>...
> during compilation, a file called 'longnamelist' has been generated.
>
> Sounds more like tar(1) to me when you exceed the max length
> of a directory entry component (as distinct from the length
> of the whole pathname).

yes, you're right: the name is just relative to the extract dir. tx,

++pac.