[Sunhelp] SunOS 4.1.3 & long file names & tar

[James Lockwood]

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Wes Hofmann wrote:

> GNU tar supports long filenames. You can download the source from
> ftp.gnu.org but I have no idea where you'll be able to find binaries for
> SunOS 4.1.3.  Hope this helps!

gnutar breaks the tar standard in several ugly ways.  I highly recommend
the faster and more conformant star, available from:

ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star

Highly mature, development predates the GNU project by a several years
(1982). 

-James