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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] netpbm
Date: Fri,  4 Feb 2005 18:41:47 -0700
From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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> My tar.c is 994 lines currently, a little bigger than
> /sys/src/cmd/tar.c at 795 lines.  It looks like 102 lines are devoted
> to dealing with compressed archives.

how about the 128-character name limit which gnu tar has extensions for?

e.g. (original p9 tar):

plan9% touch `{perl -e 'print "A"x130'}
plan9% tar cv AA*
tar: name too long for tar header: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
plan9%