Re: Sumo tarball weirdness
On 18 Nov 2000, Steve Youngs wrote:
So, did Martin see this because he used a different tar program to
unpack than the one I used to pack (GNU tar 1.13)? I can't say that
I've ever seen this behaviour before.
I've seen this before. You packed with GNU tar, but Martin unpacked
with a non-GNU tar. If you pack with a non-GNU tar (like the one
shipped with Solaris), you won't have this problem.
You might want to look at the directory tree. Perhaps the filnames
are just too annoyingly long.
-sew