Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn 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 Lines: 3 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.