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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2022-07-25 16:15:20 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2022-08-15 00:07:39 -0700 |
| commit | badd509078d97c248b21d875dd239455887cfa0e (patch) | |
| tree | f97370fbbb8f7d44a7a285e1a97c38c29aea876a | |
| parent | 4e9e55fbf97bfda6426ea8698a55de9e7df94a66 (diff) | |
| download | tar-badd509078d97c248b21d875dd239455887cfa0e.tar.gz | |
Omit MS-DOS mentions in doc
It’s really FAT32 we’re worried about now, not MS-DOS.
And doschk is no longer a GNU program.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tar.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tar.texi b/doc/tar.texi index dd565448..39fcf62b 100644 --- a/doc/tar.texi +++ b/doc/tar.texi @@ -10199,11 +10199,9 @@ contain @samp{/-}. Avoid deep directory nesting. For portability to old Unix hosts, limit your file name components to 14 characters or less. -If you intend to have your @command{tar} archives to be read under -MSDOS, you should not rely on case distinction for file names, and you -might use the @acronym{GNU} @command{doschk} program for helping you -further diagnosing illegal MSDOS names, which are even more limited -than System V's. +If you intend to have your @command{tar} archives to be read on +case-insensitive file systems like FAT32, +you should not rely on case distinction for file names. @node dereference @subsection Symbolic Links |