Re: [MacPerl] rcp using MacPerl?

[Taylor Leaming <Taylor_Leaming-RZLA60@email.sps.mot.com>]

This is a workable cross-platform solution.  I use this from time to time.

However...One potential "gotcha" is that if you exceed the character limit
of tar, you will lose files and hierarchy in when a directory tree is tar'd.
This is addressed with GNU tar.

Does anyone know of a good (preferably scriptable) GNU tar port to for the
Macintosh?  (needs to be able to tar/untar)

I know of some standard tar utils, but they suffer the problem described
problem described above.

Thanks,

Taylor

At 4:16 PM -0600 2/27/98, Esa Ristil{ wrote:
> > If you know of a solution, I'm sure it would be of general interest to
> > the list if it involves Perl.
> 
> Not perlish at all, but why don't you tar the whole bunch of files at mac
> end, upload (you may compress it with, say MacGzip to get faster
> upload) tar-file and then (gunzip, if compressed) tar xf the tar-file at
> the unix end. That keeps the filenames unchanged. I use suntar 2.0.5
> (check the Suppress names remapping checkbox in options) at mac end. Works
> fine. tar should be installed on every UNIX.


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