On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 01:44:16PM -0800, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-23 at 12:12, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > Acoording to the instructions: > > pax -w -x tar -f etc.tar /etc > > and > > tar -cf etc.tar /etc > > should result in the same archive but the former produces errors of > > the form: > > pax: File name too long for tar > > GNU tar uses some extensions to the standard tar format that pax > probably does not. I think it'd likely be closed in bugzilla as > NOTABUG. I would be more convinced if this error did not occur using pax in RH 7.3. Unfortunately bugzilla is down so I can't check. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University 715 Stadium Dr. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@trinity.edu -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
