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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Releasing long file anmes in .zip/.tar.gz?
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 10:40:56 +0100
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Victor Porton wrote:

> In article <b49m55$1u1kao$1@id-77047.news.dfncis.de>,
> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
>> Victor Porton wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm going to release an Ada package (UniParser - a library for creating
>>> grammar parsers). Gnat uses long filenames. What is the best solution
>>> for release:
>>> 
>>> I work under Linux. Windows archivers do not accept ZIP files created
>>> by Linux "zip" with long filenames (more than 8.3).
>>> 
>>> Should I:
>>> 
>>> - Release in .tar.gz (Hey, Windows users, are you all able to
>>> extreact?)
>> 
>> It would work perfectly well for both Linux and Windows. BTW, there is a
>> standard extension for tag+gzip = ".tgz". It is known to WinZip,
>> WinCommander and other Win-stuff.
> 
> I was not clear and you misunderstood. I'm not about the archive file
> name, but about file names inside the archive.

Surely tar handles long names, if that was the question. This is one of the 
reasons why I am using tag+gzip since GNAT came. Other is that it is 
possible to write a batch file under Win32, which would create an archive. 
Third is that it is free.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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