On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:37:03PM -0500, khym@azeotrope.org wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 11:12:27AM -0700, Ben Collver wrote:
> > I forgot to mention that I am using pax -x cpio, sorry for the
> > confusion.  It was suggested that the error meant my path name was too
> > long.  Is that the case?
> 
> Ah, OK :) I'm not familiar with the limitations of cpio format, but the
> FreeBSD libarchive-formats(3) manpage says:
> ...
> So, it sounds like the path name length isn't the problem, but some other
> field. I assume you need to stick with cpio format?

I don't need to stick with the cpio format.  I'd like to understand what
is going wrong.  If a field is busting an 18bit limit, I wonder which
one?  Of the archiver programs and formats in the NetBSD base system,
which would you recommend?

Thank you,

Ben