[jira] [Commented] (COMPRESS-141) Support longer file names in AR

["Stefan Bodewig (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Stefan Bodewig commented on COMPRESS-141:
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Actually the code already reads GNU long names just fine, BSD is not supported at all, neither is writing the GNU format which is difficult to do in a streaming fashion.

I haven't managed to create a BSD formatted archive as the BSD ar command on minotaur creates a GNU format archive, strange.

> Support longer file names in AR
> -------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COMPRESS-141
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-141
>             Project: Commons Compress
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 1.1
>            Reporter: Stefan Bodewig
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Traditionally file names in AR are restricted to 16 bytes and the current code fully supports this.  Two different dialects exist to overcome this (BSD and SVR4/GNU) and our code should probably support both of them when reading and a configurable version when writing.

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