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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!uqcspe!cjb From: cjb@cs.uq.oz.au (Christopher J Biggs) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: a multivolume tar that accepts standard input? Message-ID: <CJB.93Mar5121039@orchid.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: 5 Mar 93 02:10:39 GMT References: <1993Feb25.233754.8590@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au Organization: Computer Science Department, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Lines: 25 In-reply-to: smace@nyx.cs.du.edu's message of 25 Feb 93 23:37:54 GMT >>>>> In article <1993Feb25.233754.8590@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, smace@nyx.cs.du.edu (Scott Mace) writes: >I am looking for a multivolume tar program that accepts standard input. >What I am trying to do is: >tar cvp * |compress| tar cvfLMp /dev/rfd0a 10240 - >This obviously won't work because I can't make tar accept standard >input. Is there a better way to do this. Will cpio work? >Scott Mace Send the first tar file to a fifo (named pipe) and read from it for the second tar. The only real problem is that fifo's are not enabled in the kernel. DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO GET FIFOs WORKING??? Cheers, Chris -- Christopher J Biggs cjb@cs.uq.oz.au | "You can have peace. Or you can Department of Computer Science, | have freedom. Don't ever count on The University of Queensland, Australia | having both at once."--Lazarus Long ------------veni vidi nuclei deceiri - I came, I saw, I dumped core------------