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-----Original Message-----
From: Bradley McLean [mailto:bradm@ne.mediaone.net]
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 1:22 PM
To: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: Re: Problems with *.gz source archive


* Costin Manolache (Costin.Manolache@eng.sun.com) [000327 14:45]:
>
> Options:
> - use only zip ( we have it in java)
> - try to find a FreeBSD tar that is a bit more "portable"
> - document that you have to use gnu tar. ( I hate this - tar is supposed
to
> be portable, regardless of the features added by GNU.)

- use tar -o  for V7 compatible archives (yuck).
- Find a way to restrict the path lengths to <100 characters, (and meet
other restrictions as well:)

Reference: http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar/html_chapter/tar_8.html#SEC108

We found it easier (for one company) to standardize on gnu tar, since the
Sun platform was our only problem, and there weren't tars compatible with
Sun tar available for all our other platforms.

-Brad McLean

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