Re: [Bug-tar] @LongLink Errors

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

Gordon Lowe <address@hidden> wrote:

> When this Unix version of the tar program was used to extract the contents of 
> the tar file, a number of @LongLink errors were received.
>  
> Is there some way around this?

There are to ways to handle this. First, you can re-create the
archive on your Windows box using some more commonly understood format.
If you use GNU tar version 1.14 or later, use --format=ustar. If the
version of tar you are using is older than 1.14 (which is probably the
case under Windows), use -o option.

Secondly, you can install GNU tar on Solaris box and use it to unpack
the archive. As far as I know recent Sun distributions already include
it. 

Regards,
Sergey