tar doesn't back up long file names

[Augusto Vinhaes]

It's not possible to back up long file names with tar. I got the message: file name to long. I took a look at the man page and I tried to use the "N" key, but it's not working.
Can you help me, please ?

Regards,
Augusto

[S.K. Chan]

Even ..
# man 4 tar
says you can have pathnames up to 256 chars and the "N" option is default behavior. Have you got the latest "tar cumulative" patch installed ?

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Augusto


I think you are using a long argument , I would suggest that you try


tar cvf /dev/rmt/0m ` cat a`

where file a has the list of the files which ened to be backed up.


Manoj Srivastava

[Augusto Vinhaes]

I need to check the patches ...

tar cvf teste `cat a` doesn't work.

[harry d brown jr]

Get GNU's tar:

get and install these depot's in this order:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Development/Libraries/libiconv-1.8/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/gettext-0.11.5/
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Gnu/tar-1.13.25/


live free or die
harry