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
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 ;-)