Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact ant-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 24393 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2000 22:07:06 -0000 Received: from c000-h000.c000.snv.cp.net (HELO c000.snv.cp.net) (209.228.32.64) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 13 Sep 2000 22:07:06 -0000 Received: (cpmta 3239 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2000 15:05:59 -0700 Received: from c18765142.telekabel.chello.nl (HELO marcellt2) (212.187.65.142) by smtp.schutte.com (209.228.32.64) with SMTP; 13 Sep 2000 15:05:59 -0700 X-Sent: 13 Sep 2000 22:05:59 GMT From: "Marcel Schutte" To: "ant-dev" Subject: Problems with long paths in Tar task Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 00:06:28 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Hi, I just stumbled on a hard 100 character limitation for the combined path and filename of a tar entry. Its existence is more than obvious from the ant code, but a solution seems a lot less simple. A bit of searching gave me the following link (http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar/html_mono/tar.html#SEC112), where there is an explanation of the difference between POSIX and GNU versions of tar. Does anyone know whether there is -one- way of handling longer paths in tars? I am willing to do some coding, but I want to be sure of the specs to follow. Regards, Marcel