Re: A bug using tar on Windows NT ?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, BICHOT Guilhem 172613 wrote:

> It seems like the following tar version
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.12.msdos.exe does not handle long filenames
> on Windows NT computers (Windows NT Server 4.0 Service Pack 5 French) : 

That is true: Windows NT 4 doesn't let DOS programs access the long file 
names.

> tar does not have this problem on Windows 2000 French and US.

Also expected: Windows 2000 does include a special API which can be used 
by DOS programs to access the long names.  The Tar port that you are 
using automatically detects that API at startup and uses it if it is 
available.

The same API is available on Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows ME.  
Only NT 4 doesn't support it.

> Have you heard about it ? Is there any solution ?

If you need to have long file names from NT 4, the only solution is to 
install an LFN driver.  You can find one such driver here:

  ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2misc/ntlfn08b.zip