TAR and long filenames

[darieb at sandia-2.arpa]

A user has received a TAR tape which contains files with names longer than
legal on his *nix.  Each time his TAR tries to create such a file, it blows
away.

? Any way to convince TAR to re-create a file with a different filename?
? Other ideas?

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Declan A. Rieb           		ARPAnet: DARieb at Sandia-2.ARPA
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Sandia National Laboratories
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