SCO 2.2.1 tar question

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <8WQW5Ky00Vs8MSNUQN at andrew.cmu.edu> jl42+ at andrew.cmu.edu (Jay Mathew Libove) writes:
| Hi. I'm running SCO Xenix SysV/286 v2.2.1 on an IBM PC/AT clone and
| I am having a bit of a problem with "tar".
| I want to tar off a filesystem as:
| 
| % tar cf - /pathname | compress | tar cfk /dev/rfd096ds9 720 -
| 
| but when I do this I get:
| 
| tar: blocksize must be a multiple of 2.

  This must be a new feature of 2.2.1, it's not in 2.1.3 and I don't
have a handy copy of 2.2.1 here. I see what you're trying to do (I
think) and would suggest the bundle/unbundle package I posted to
unix.src a few months ago. It is intended to break standard input across
a number of output media, such as floppy disk, and I think it does what
you want. The unbundle part reads multiple media and sends them to
stdout.

  Ex:
	$ tar -cf - /mydir | compress | bundle /dev/rfd096 1200k 15k
	$ unbundle /dev/rfd096 15k | zcat | tar t

  If you don't have archives I can send you a copy. Be sure and give me
an address in the text so the return will work.
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