tar .vs. cpio - (nf)

Doug Gwyn <gwyn> gwyn at brl-tgr.ARPA
Tue Aug 14 10:05:45 AEST 1984


There is a (relatively small) limit on the total length of
command line options, typically 5120 bytes.  I have lots of
archives whose component file names far exceed this limit.



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