Re: [Bug-tar] file name too long to be stored in a GNU multivolume header

[Curt Blank]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:

> Curt Blank <address@hidden> ha escrit:
> 
> > Thank you. Didn't see the --format option when I do a "man tar" but I 
> > now see it when I do a "tar --help".
> 
> Please see GNU tar documentation. The `--format' option is described
> in the chapter 8, "Controlling the Archive Format". The infornation is
> also available on line, see
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/tar_3.html#IDX71
> 
> for a description of the `--format' command line option, and
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/tar_8.html
>

Thank you. I looked through both and didn't see anything on "pax"? Did I 
miss it somewhere?

-Curt
 
> for a description of various archive formats.
> 
> > Just curious as to the answer to Jörg question below.
> > >Does this mean you introduced an incompatible alternative for multi-volume
> 
> The meaning of "incompatible" is not entirely clear to me. The GNU tar
> documentation states clearly that "multi-volume support is a GNU
> extension and the archives created in this mode should be read only
> using GNU `tar'" (see section 9.6.1 "Archives Longer than One Tape or
> Disk", http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/tar_75.html).
> However, multi-volume archives in pax format are readable and
> extractable almost with any tar implementation, see
> http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/tar_140.html for a
> description.
> 
> Regards,
> Sergey
>