* "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)arsdigita.com&gt; writes: Hrvoje> But how about file name + directories? Hrvoje> (Yes, `tar' file format really is that crummy. I found it hard to Hrvoje> believe too.) Sheesh! The tree for creating the sumo packages are in /home/steve/test-it/build/Sumo/xemacs-packages/ I cd to /home/steve/test-it/build/Sumo/ and run tar. Do I need to start counting from 'Sumo/' or from '/home' ? (and is there an easy way to do this? Should I even be worried at all?) -- |---<Regards, Steve Youngs>-----------[GnuPG KeyID: 59E4C4B2]---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor... | | It's a way of life. | |----------------------------------<mailto:youngs＠xemacs.org>---|

Paul, would you be willing to cooperate to solve the "100-character" tar file name limit by changing some of your long file names, especially UnaryExpressionNotPlusMinus.java? sew> find . -print | awk '{print length}' | sort -n | tail -1 sew> But I think the problem is the longest *symlink*, so you'll need sew> find . -type l -print | awk '{print length}' | sort -n | tail -1 The GNU tar manual section GNU `tar' and POSIX `tar' explains all the gory details. Please read it. Bottom line: we have to have a tree with all filenames below 100 characters. The files causing trouble are all in jde. We have one filename exactly 99 characters long. The easiest is to cooperate with the jde maintainer to reduce the filename lengths. (martin＠mule) ~cdx/packages $ find xemacs-packages mule-packages | perl -e '＠in = <>; ＠in = sort {length $a <=> length $b} ＠in; for (＠in) { print length $_, " $_"} ' | tail -10 93 xemacs-packages/etc/jde/java/src/jde/debugger/interpret/syntaxtree/InstanceOfExpression.java 94 xemacs-packages/etc/jde/java/src/jde/debugger/interpret/syntaxtree/InclusiveOrExpression.java 94 xemacs-packages/etc/jde/java/src/jde/debugger/interpret/syntaxtree/ExclusiveOrExpression.java 94 xemacs-packages/etc/jde/java/src/jde/debugger/interpret/syntaxtree/ConditionalExpression.java 95 xemacs-packages/etc/jde/java/src/jde/debugger/interpret/syntaxtree/PreDecrementExpression.java 95 xemacs-packages/etc/jde/java/src/jde/debugger/interpret/syntaxtree/PreIncrementExpression.java 96 xemacs-packages/etc/jde/java/src/jde/debugger/interpret/syntaxtree/ConditionalOrExpression.java 97 xemacs-packages/etc/jde/java/src/jde/debugger/interpret/syntaxtree/MultiplicativeExpression.java 97 xemacs-packages/etc/jde/java/src/jde/debugger/interpret/syntaxtree/ConditionalAndExpression.java 100 xemacs-packages/etc/jde/java/src/jde/debugger/interpret/syntaxtree/UnaryExpressionNotPlusMinus.java