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From: dsilvia@blunt.net.com (Dave Silvia)
Subject: gnu tar multi-volume with floppies
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Organization: Network Equipment Technologies
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 23:42:07 GMT
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I've succeeded in creating multi-volume tar floppies, but the extraction only
reads the first floppy.  Here's the scenario:

	tar -L 1440 -cvMzf /dev/rfd1a <dir>

This works just fine and prompts for the next volume.  But on the extract:

	tar -M -xvzf /dev/rfd1a /dev/rfd1a

the first volume gets to the end and emits:

	tar: Skipping to next file header ...

Then lands me back at the command line prompt.  I even tried '+multi-volume'
with no success.  I originally added the -L 1440 to the create since I noticed
the -M seemed to have no effect (I also found that the -L could not be embedded
but had to be stand alone).

Any clues would be appreciated!

Dave S.