Re: tar recovery

[Paul Eggert]

> From: "Reede" <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 12:36:23 +0200

> I first have the suggestion to =
> let tar report when a filename-lenght is to long to store in the =
> tarfile.

But GNU tar does not have a file name length limit.  You can store
file names of (practically) unlimited length in a GNU tar file.
The only real limit is what is imposed by your operating system.
So I don't understand what happened in your case.

> I =
> have the question if there is anything I can do to restore my documents. =

It's not clear to me how you created the tar file, but you should be
able to use GNU Emacs to edit the tar file and view the data.  It
will be awkward, though.

Possibly you were using a version of tar that created POSIX-format
file names.  In that case, you can recover the file by using a recent
test version of GNU tar.  The source code is in:

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.25.tar.gz

> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

Can you please reconfigure your email client to send plain text as
text, rather than as MIME?  E.g. see
<http://member.newsguy.com/~schramm/nhtml.html>.  Thanks.