Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!marob!daveh From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: Xenix tar format Message-ID: <421@marob.MASA.COM> Date: 22 Sep 88 11:23:42 GMT References: <14605@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) Organization: ESCC New York City Lines: 15 In article <14605@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes: >Does anyone know how SCO Xenix modifies the tar format to cover >files that are spread over two or more floppies. tar(F) does NOT >describe this. Tar has always choked on files which are larger than the backup volume. If there is a magical workaround for this, I wish someone would share it. BTW, are there *any* copy/backup utilities besides `dump' which do allow files to span volumes ? Dave Hammond UUCP: uunet!masa.com!{marob,dsix2}!daveh DOMAIN: daveh@marob.masa.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------