[tex-live] long names in .tar files
Nelson H. F. Beebe
beebe at math.utah.edu
Sat Sep 5 01:42:39 CEST 2009
I grabbed the two test files
http://tug.org/~karl/longname-posix.tar
http://tug.org/~karl/longname-ustar.tar
and tried them here with system versions of tar (excluding our several
GNU/Linux systems, all of which have GNU tar):
DEC Alpha OSF/1 longname-posix.tar: This doesn't look like a tar archive
longname-ustar.tar: OK
FreeBSD 5.0 error "unknown file type `x'" with longname-posix.tar
Filename truncated to 105 chars
longname-ustar.tar: OK
FreeBSD 6.1 both OK
NetBSD 1.6 same as FreeBSD 5.0
OpenBSD 3.9 longname-posix.tar: truncated to 100 chars
longname-ustar.tar: OK
OpenBSD 4.5 longname-posix.tar: truncated to 100 chars
longname-ustar.tar: OK
Mac OS X 10.5.8 Intel both OK
Mac OS X 10.5.8 PowerPC both OK
Minix 3.1.2 longname-posix.tar: not recogised item 0170 Tar: header checksum error.
longname-ustar.tar: OK
MirBSD 10 same as OpenBSD 4.5
SGI IRIX MIPS same as OpenBSD 4.5
Solaris 7 SPARC longname-posix.tar: impossible file type100
longname-ustar.tar: OK
Solaris 10 AMD64 same as OpenBSD 4.5
Solaris 10 SPARC same as OpenBSD 4.5
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