Re: Bittorrent Mirror - apple.cabi.net

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Scott Alfter wrote:
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> In article <fuWdnZytA9eq_XrZnZ2dnUVZ_sWdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
> Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote:
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> > 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.

Interesting...  I just ran it through PowerArchiver 6.1 and got the same
result--filenames truncated to 3 letters.

-michael

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