Re: tar: Pathname too long

From	Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: tar: Pathname too long
Date	2016-10-19 18:44 +0200
Organization	DNLA GmbH
Message-ID	<nu87ta$rrq$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References	(13 earlier) <191020160838412447%nospam@nospam.invalid> <barmar-3F965A.11311919102016@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu> <191020161138480830%nospam@nospam.invalid> <nu86ir$mue$1@dont-email.me> <191020161233005977%nospam@nospam.invalid>

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nospam wrote:

> In article <nu86ir$mue$1@dont-email.me>, Peter Köhlmann
> <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote:
> 
>> >> > > 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.
>> 
>> No, it is not "perfectly valid".
> 
> it's perfectly valid.
> 
> the *only* character that is not allowed on hfs is a colon (:) because
> hfs uses that as a path separator. everything else is valid.
> 
> the unix layer of os x translates slash (/), which is unix's path
> separator, to a colon for hfs.
> 
> apps that use unix apis can't use / in a file name (but can use : ),
> while apps that use classic mac apis can't use : (but can use / ).
> 
> windows is the worst, with a whole slew of forbidden characters.

Oh, just create a file foo/bar.docx and try to open it with word

Perfectly valid filename, and perfectly unuseable for some applications

There is a reason why some characters should be avoided

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    Re: tar: Pathname too long Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2016-10-14 10:55 -0400
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        Re: tar: Pathname too long Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-14 15:52 +0000
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              Re: tar: Pathname too long Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2016-10-15 11:44 -0400
          Re: tar: Pathname too long Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2016-10-14 13:14 -0400
          Re: tar: Pathname too long Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2016-10-14 17:12 -0400
            Re: tar: Pathname too long "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-14 23:08 -0500
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            Re: tar: Pathname too long rlhamil@smart.net (Richard L. Hamilton) - 2016-10-16 08:43 +0000
              Re: tar: Pathname too long "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-16 16:43 -0500
                Re: tar: Pathname too long rlhamil@smart.net (Richard L. Hamilton) - 2016-10-17 17:46 +0000
                Re: tar: Pathname too long Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-10-18 06:39 +0200
                Re: tar: Pathname too long dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-10-18 20:39 +1300
                Re: tar: Pathname too long "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-18 12:20 -0500
                Re: tar: Pathname too long dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-10-19 09:15 +1300
                Re: tar: Pathname too long nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-18 16:37 -0400
                Re: tar: Pathname too long "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-19 00:26 -0500
                Re: tar: Pathname too long dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-10-19 23:02 +1300
                Re: tar: Pathname too long "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-19 18:02 -0500
                Re: tar: Pathname too long dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-10-20 14:06 +1300
                Re: tar: Pathname too long "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-19 22:57 -0500
                Re: tar: Pathname too long dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2016-10-20 17:47 +1300
                Re: tar: Pathname too long Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-20 15:23 +0000
                Re: tar: Pathname too long nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-19 08:38 -0400
                Re: tar: Pathname too long Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2016-10-19 11:31 -0400
                Re: tar: Pathname too long nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-19 11:38 -0400
                Re: tar: Pathname too long Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2016-10-19 11:49 -0400
                Re: tar: Pathname too long nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-19 12:09 -0400
                Re: tar: Pathname too long Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-19 18:22 +0200
                Re: tar: Pathname too long nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-19 12:33 -0400
                Re: tar: Pathname too long Peter Köhlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> - 2016-10-19 18:44 +0200
                Re: tar: Pathname too long nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-19 12:58 -0400
                Re: tar: Pathname too long Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-20 04:25 +0000
                Re: tar: Pathname too long "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-21 20:16 -0500
                Re: tar: Pathname too long Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-19 15:47 +0000
                Re: tar: Pathname too long Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-19 15:40 +0000
                Re: tar: Pathname too long "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-19 18:06 -0500
                Re: tar: Pathname too long Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-20 00:15 +0000
                Re: tar: Pathname too long "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-19 22:58 -0500
                Re: tar: Pathname too long nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2016-10-20 08:19 -0400
                Re: tar: Pathname too long Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-20 14:21 +0000
                Re: tar: Pathname too long "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-21 20:23 -0500
                Re: tar: Pathname too long Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-22 04:26 +0000
                Re: tar: Pathname too long "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-22 16:53 -0500
                Re: tar: Pathname too long Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-22 22:14 +0000
      Re: tar: Pathname too long Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2016-10-14 12:33 -0400
    Re: tar: Pathname too long Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2016-10-14 11:03 -0400
      Re: tar: Pathname too long Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-14 15:53 +0000
        Re: tar: Pathname too long Robert Peirce <bob@peirce-family.com> - 2016-10-14 12:56 -0400

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