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From: toepfer@du9ds3 (HaJo Toepfer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: [386BSD] multi volume tar
Date: 27 Nov 92 07:02:22 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Duisburg GH
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Message-ID: <toepfer.722847742@du9ds3>
References: <carlp.722626136@frigg> <1992Nov25.175910.23121@athena.mit.edu>
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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?
^^^^^
thats's it, try "tar +help |& more"
>-John
>jackson@a1.mec.mass.edu or vikki@athena.mit.edu
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