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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: tar .vs. cpio - (nf)
Message-ID: <3948@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 13-Aug-84 20:05:45 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.3948
Posted: Mon Aug 13 20:05:45 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 16-Aug-84 02:04:22 EDT
References: <226@haddock.UUCP>, <2541@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Organization: Ballistics Research Lab
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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.