Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: tar: Pathname too long Date: 19 Oct 2016 15:47:59 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <6klgdd-65d2.ln1@news.chingola.ch> <1mvbw4r.1r5nnx01q1ronmN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> <1mvcx27.1u41d2t4l3wmN%dempson@actrix.gen.nz> <191020160838412447%nospam@nospam.invalid> X-Trace: individual.net LO+9TDPEEwSwcQt0uioMCQXPXsSXjEtw2BJ0nSY2ae2xwWH7hD Cancel-Lock: sha1:OfkMlNBIIZTskecuJsZUfEvdhYE= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:37119 On 2016-10-19, Barry Margolin wrote: > In article <191020160838412447%nospam@nospam.invalid>, > nospam wrote: > >> In article , Happy.Hobo >> wrote: >> >> > > Believe it. The Icon\r file has existed for a long time - I'm aware it >> > > from Mac OS 9 or earlier, and it is still being used in El Capitan (I >> > > haven't tried in Sierra). >> > >> > I am on Sierra now. I do most of my work in that directory in Terminal, >> > and I saw the file for the first time today. Coincidentally after using >> > Windows on that directory for the first time in a week. >> > >> > And if adding a custom icon is supposed to cause it, well, I haven't >> > done that in years on Mac and never on Windows. And never on the >> > directory that gained one of those files today. >> > >> > So it's STILL hard to believe the Mac created it. But if so, it's a >> > rather stupid bug for a Unix O.S. to make its own end-of-line character >> > part of a filename. >> >> it's not a bug and a perfectly valid character in a file name. > > It's surprising that they didn't change the name in OS X to begin with > ".", as that's the Unix convention for hidden filenames. Why? If it ain't broke... -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR