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From: jdi@sparky.Franz.COM (John Irwin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: tarring to a remote Exabyte
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Date: 16 Mar 90 04:39:33 GMT
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In article <351@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@cs.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>tar works fine with a locally-attached Exabyte, but I'm not having
>much luck across a communications channel.
>
>For example, why would
>	tar cbf 20 /dev/nrxt0 ...
>work, yet
>	tar cbf 20 - ... | dd of=/dev/nrxt0 bs=20b
>
>not?
>...

You need to use:
	tar cbf 20 - ... | dd of=/dev/nrxt0 obs=20b

IE: you only want to specify the output block size, not the input and output
    block size.  This is because of how Unix buffers pipes.

	-- John Irwin
	   Franz Inc.