Question about cpio vs. tar

[Tanner Andrews]

Assuming that you have a reasonable idea of the amount of data which
may be placed on the disk, xenix (80286 sys3, sys5) will accept a "k"
in the control keyword.  This allows specificiation of the size of
the output volume; you will then be prompted "tar: mount next volume"
and may do the reasonable thing.

This also works with using removable disks as a back-up medium.
Better speed may be obtained by specifying a blocking factor which is
an integral multiple of the cylinder size (or sub-multiple, if your
"tar" doesn't malloc() its buffer).
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