karron@ACF4.NYU.EDU (Dan Karron) (07/25/90)
Compress wont tack on a .Z if it things a file name is too long, and will not compress a long file name. A while back, I noted that IRIS allows LONG LONG LONG file names. Where is the source to compress (I think that sgi has it as a sbin executable, but the source it public domain) ? Where in the /usr/include directory is the def for a directory name slot length ? Can I make a version of compress that will know the real length of IRIX file names. Is there a version/ or the mods to do this around ? The problem comes up when I have to compress a tree of files with longis(>18) characters filenames. It is silly not to compress them only because they have long names. dan.
russell@CCU1.AUKUNI.AC.NZ (07/27/90)
As a workaround to the problems of compress not handling long file names, you can use tar to pack them into an archive and compress the archive. Just like packaging software for distribution vai ftp. This may actually be quicker if more than a few files are involved. Cheers Russell. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Russell Fulton 'phone +64 9 737-999 x 8955 | | Computer Centre domain rj_fulton@aukuni.ac.nz | | University of Auckland fax +64 9 303-2467 | | Private Bag time gmt -12 (13) (summer time)| | Auckland, New Zealand. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+