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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!tulane!darwin.sura.net!Sirius.dfn.de!mailgzrz.TU-Berlin.DE!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!unidui!du9ds3!veit From: veit@du9ds3 (Holger Veit) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: [386BSD] multi volume tar Date: 26 Nov 92 17:36:21 GMT Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung Lines: 34 Message-ID: <veit.722799381@du9ds3> References: <carlp.722626136@frigg> <1992Nov25.175910.23121@athena.mit.edu> Reply-To: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de In <1992Nov25.175910.23121@athena.mit.edu> vikki@e40-008-11.MIT.EDU (Vikki King) writes: >[...deleted...] >: dist IS gnu tar, and supports "multivolume" with -M. I don't know why >: it doesn't detect end-of-media, but: >: >: I _know_ it supports multi-TAPE archives, with the -L length option; I >: make my backups this way, to a 60Mb QIC drive, using -L 60000 >: >: Try "tar +help". >Does anyone know why it isn't possible to pause GNU/386bsd's tar +help output >by piping it to more? It's as if it's not being send stdout. Could it be >going to stderr instead? >-John >jackson@a1.mec.mass.edu or vikki@athena.mit.edu If it writes to stderr, you can persuade the shell to pass the output to more by tar +help |& more (csh) or tar +help 2>&1 | more (sh) This is a standard facility described in the manual pages (I avoid my standard RTFM here :-) ). BTW, tar +help indeed writes to stderr. Holger -- | | / Dr. Holger Veit | INTERNET: veit@du9ds3.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de |__| / University of Duisburg | "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX | | / Dept. of Electr. Eng. | Sorry, the above really good fortune has | |/ Inst. f. Dataprocessing | been CENSORED because of obscenity"