Resolved tar-to-a-pipe problem ("tar: blocksize=1")

[Malcolm Carlock]

It looks as if tar commands of the form

  tar cf - files | rsh somewhere dd [ibs=???] [obs=???] of=/dev/sometape

just can't be made to work the way you'd expect (i.e., being able to
read the tape later using a normal tar command.)  GNU tar was recommended
as the solution, and indeed does the job very neatly:

  gtar -cf somewhere:/dev/sometape files

Piece o' cake, and highly recommended.  Beats me why dd doesn't seem to
behave more reasonably, though.

GNU tar can be ftp'd from prep.ai.mit.edu (18.71.0.38).

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