| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 10068 |
| Total number of notes: | 35879 |
A customer reported this problem: If you create an archive in DU 4.0B and want to delete or extract a file out of this archive and its filename is longer than 13 characters it does not find the file and/or corrupts the whole archive. See: ON a 4.0B system: jibe.aui.dec.com> ar -t -v foo rw-r--r-- 0/0 890 Feb 9 19:05 1996 bullet_black.gif rw-r--r-- 0/0 285 Jan 9 22:02 1996 button_next.gif rw-r--r-- 0/0 1434 Dec 9 00:22 1995 REW.GIF rw-r--r-- 0/0 1527 Mar 14 15:17 1996 bar_silver.gif rw-r--r-- 0/0 313 Jan 9 21:55 1996 button_previous.gif rw-r--r-- 0/0 1434 Dec 9 00:22 1995 REW.GIF jibe.aui.dec.com> ar -x -v foo button_previous.gif ar: Error: button_previous.gif not found jibe.aui.dec.com> ar -x -v foo REW.GIF x - REW.GIF jibe.aui.dec.com> jibe.aui.dec.com> uname -a OSF1 jibe.aui.dec.com V4.0 564 alpha ON a 4.0A system: cobosf.aui.dec.com> ar -t -v foo rw-r--r-- 0/0 890 Feb 9 19:05 1996 bullet_black.gif rw-r--r-- 0/0 285 Jan 9 22:02 1996 button_next.gif rw-r--r-- 0/0 1434 Dec 9 00:22 1995 REW.GIF rw-r--r-- 0/0 1527 Mar 14 15:17 1996 bar_silver.gif rw-r--r-- 0/0 313 Jan 9 21:55 1996 button_previous.gif rw-r--r-- 0/0 1434 Dec 9 00:22 1995 REW.GIF cobosf.aui.dec.com> ar -x-v foo button_previous.gif x - button_previous.gif cobosf.aui.dec.com> uname -a OSF1 cobosf.aui.dec.com V4.0 386 alpha I need a fix for that !! Regards Gerhard
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| 8956.1 | QUARRY::neth | Craig Neth | Wed Feb 26 1997 15:56 | 6 | |
I talked to the maintainer, and he said it looks like a fix for another problem has introduced a bug. If you need a fix for a customer, you should file an IPMT asap. Craig | |||||
| 8956.2 | another possibly related problem | HYDRA::DONSBACH | Jeff Donsbach, Software Partner Engineering, DTN 297-6862 | Thu Feb 27 1997 11:40 | 9 |
Maybe a related problem-
The ISV I work with has found that he can't delete an object from
an archive with "ar -d". It always complains that it can't find
the object specified. I've verified this on 4.0A and 4.0B.
Jeff D.
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| 8956.3 | QUARRY::neth | Craig Neth | Thu Feb 27 1997 12:24 | 9 | |
> Maybe a related problem- > > The ISV I work with has found that he can't delete an object from > an archive with "ar -d". It always complains that it can't find > the object specified. I've verified this on 4.0A and 4.0B. Could be, although I could not duplicate it with my simple tests on V4.0B. Please file a QAR so that the ar maintainer (that's not me) will get to see it... | |||||
| 8956.4 | qar coming soon to a database near you | HYDRA::DONSBACH | Jeff Donsbach, Software Partner Engineering, DTN 297-6862 | Thu Feb 27 1997 16:25 | 9 |
Could be related to the size of archive. I'll get a reproducer and
file a QAR as soon as possible.
The work around was to just extract everything and create a new
archive with everything except the object that we wanted to delete
in the first place.
-Jeff D.
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