tar problems with long file names bogus in some cases?

[David Lewis]

Reply-to: david at ics.COM (David Lewis)


Trying to make a tar tape on our MicroVax (Ultrix 2.2), I noticed that
tar is checking the full path-name to see if filenames exceed its
100-character maximum. The error message named the whole file-name and
not the name relative to the current directory, from which I was making
the tape. I was able to work around the problem, but isn't this wrong? 
Is it a known problem with a fix available? (We don't have sources.) Thanks.