tar frustration (was Re: relative pathname question!)

[Daniel R. Levy]

In article <1988Aug13.190030.1495 at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>, woods at gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Greg Woods) writes:
# Anyone done any work on the PD-tar lately?  It needs multi-volume
# handling, should have the ability to format floppies, and change devices
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
# inter-volume (ala cpio), before I'll bother using it.

Are you kidding?  Is this not inherently nonportable?
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