Timwi wrote in gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical:
Kate Turner wrote:
i was unable to find any documentation on the file format that GNU tar uses
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_mono/tar.html#SEC134 ?
this is what i looked at before, but i can't find the relevant part of the description. it says:
/* Identifies the *next* file on the tape as having a long name. */ #define GNUTYPE_LONGNAME 'L'
but does not indicate how the long name should be encoded in the archive header, unless i'm missing it somewhere...
kate.
(interestingly, the manual says that GNU tar will use pax format by default in the future, although i suppose that does not solve the immediate problem ;-)