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Subject: Re: [9fans] netpbm
Date: Fri,  4 Feb 2005 17:45:49 -0800
From: geoff@collyer.net
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My tar creates POSIX "ustar" archives by default, which can handle
names up to 255 bytes as long as they can be split at a `/' into two
strings, the first 155 or fewer bytes long and the second 100 or fewer
bytes long.  It also recognises "ustar" archives automatically when
reading archives, as does the standard tar.