Problem with pack command on Itanium

[Arnold Schlusberg]

There appears to be an issue with the old pack command on Itanium processors. If the length of the string containing the path to the file being packed exceeds a certain value, the pack command fails. What happens is the an empty *.z file is created. And the following error is produced: opendir: : No such file or directory.

I have played around with trying various path strings. Not counting the file name itself and the preceeding slash the magic number appears to be 32. It fails when the path exceeds 32 (again not counting the last slash and the file name).

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Search the http://itrc.hp.com patch database for patches containing the command pack

Try compress
try gzip

SEP

[Dennis Handly]

The buffer for the name is limited to 80 bytes. There have been no changes in this for years.