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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
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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
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