On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:37:31PM -0400, Charles Swiger wrote:
> On Jun 26, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Ben Collver wrote:
> >>"man pax" has a discussion about this.
> >
> >The file name in question is less than 100 characters.  Where does the
> >man page discuss pax inheriting a 100-character path limit for the  
> >cpio
> >format?
> 
> "man pax" says this:
> 
>            tar      The old BSD tar format as found in 4.3BSD.  The  
> ...

The path name is less than 60 characters long, so it shouldn't be an
issue even if I used the old BSD tar format.

I forgot to mention that I am using pax -x cpio, so the tar section of
the pax man page probably doesn't apply here.

Ben