Re: Bittorrent Mirror - apple.cabi.net

[scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter)]

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In article <fuWdnZytA9eq_XrZnZ2dnUVZ_sWdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
>There appears to be a problem with the 'apple.cabi.net.tar.gz' archive
>(or with WinZip, which I'm using to view the contents).
>
>The total path length is exceeding some limit, causing filenames to be
>truncated and making them non-unique.
>
>For example, in the archived directory:
>
>apple.cabi.net\Languages.Programming\DRIVER.SRC\Stylewriter_Driver_SRC.CODE\stylewriter\scripts
>
>there are two files named 'dir' and three named 'sty', clearly the 
>result of truncation.

Works for me...the archive unpacked OK on one of my Linux boxes.

I suspect the problem is with WinZip, as the directory structure doesn't
look like something that should cause a problem with Windows.  WinZip's
tarball handling has (IMO) always left something to be desired.

I'd recommend using GNU tar, which is available for Windows as a part of
Cygwin:

http://www.cygwin.com/

It's part of the base Cygwin install, so you shouldn't need to select extra
packages to get it working.

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