Still Looking for a gnopix-style CD
Martin McCormick
martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu
Thu Dec 1 17:45:06 UTC 2005
"John G. Heim" writes:
>You won't lose your long file names via tar. Linux/unix had long file names
>long before Windows even existed. I make backups of Windows files all the
>time via tar on a shared network drive. I don't think you're going to have
>any problem using the files you copied via tar.
Yes. As soon as I unpacked the tar ball on a Linux system,
the long names became visible for the first time to me. Many thanks.
Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group
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