multi-volume tar

heiser at tdw201.ed.ray.com heiser at tdw201.ed.ray.com
Tue Aug 28 22:27:13 AEST 1990


In article <7920 at lynx.UUCP> m5 at lynx.uucp (Mike McNally) writes:
>Apparently, Interactive System V (and SCO and AIX) tar on 386 PC machines
>allows multi-diskette tar archives.  I'm looking for information on if and
>how tar marks volumes; is there a special volume header block?
>

The Esix manuals mentions multi-volumes (floppies) in the tar and cpio
sections -- but I could not get either to work.  Maybe i'm not using the
right device names or something.  I tried to both 1.2 and 1.44 meg floppies.
Anyone know of any special tricks to do this?


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