"John G. Heim" writes: >You won't lose your long file names via tar. Linux/unix had long file names >long before Windows even existed. I make backups of Windows files all the >time via tar on a shared network drive. I don't think you're going to have >any problem using the files you copied via tar. Yes. As soon as I unpacked the tar ball on a Linux system, the long names became visible for the first time to me. Many thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list