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From: j@werner.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: tar -M broken?
Date: 14 Sep 1995 19:18:42 +0200
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Tom Rush <tom@tarush.chattanooga.net> wrote:
>However, I have not been able to get the FreeBSD version of tar to create
>a multi-volume archive. If I use "tar -cvMf /dev/fd0.1440 <dirname>" it
>fills up the floppy with however many files will fit; then it just displays
>all the other file names in turn and finishes without ever prompting for
>another disk. If then try to extract from that same disk, it works
>properly, i.e. reads to the end, then prompts for disk 2 (which, of course,
>I don't have!).
I think, this is my fault (or at least, i have yet to correct that
particular bug in the floppy disk driver, even though i have not
caused it).
However, if you use ``-L1440'' (or ``-L1200'' resp.), everything
should work fine!
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)