File Name Lengths In GNU Tar 1.12 (CygWin NT)

[Justen Marshall]

Hi

Just wondering if there was any way to overcome the apparent limit of
45 characters as a maximum length of filenames in tar archives created
with GNU Tar 1.12 for NT (provided with CygWin 1.1.4).

I have been badly burned by this - I built a backup system which
depended heavily on CygWin tar on NT v1.12, which was working fine
until someone tried to restore a Softimage database (a directory
created by our 3D software, which contains hundreds of files, often
with ridiculously long filenames) only to discover it was hopelessly
corrupted because many subsidiary files had their names truncated!

Even the Unix tar 99 char filename limit (tested on Irix) would be
better!

In the mean time, I have moved to using zip, but that's a pain! I
would much rather use tar if possible.

Thanks in advance for your help. I look forward to hearing from you
soon.

Justen
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