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From: simon@ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix Multi-tape backup
Message-ID: <13694@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 90 03:13:18 GMT
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Reply-To: simon@ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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There _is_ at least one version of Xenix whose tar is broken.  You can make
multi-volume tars, but when you try to reload (un-tar?) them, tar will prompt
for the next volume only if a file was split across the volume and the next
one.  If a file isn't split across volumes, tar will simply stop at the end
of the volume.

I don't know which version has this problem, but I've experienced it and 
heard it from customers. (SCO Xenix, 286 versions)
-- 
Simon Gales@The University of Kentucky
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