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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: tar: Pathname too long
Date: 11 Oct 2016 19:22:21 GMT
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On 2016-10-11, Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> wrote:
> On 10/11/16 1:15 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
>> I gave some suggestions, but you never even responded. Oh well.
>>
>
> You suggested I re-write the script in a higher level language, but I 
> decided I couldn't do that without recreating tar somehow and I didn't 
> think I could do that.

There's no reason you can't still use tar in a PHP/Perl/whatever script.

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