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From: achille@cernvax.UUCP (achille petrilli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Tar and multiple physical tapes?
Message-ID: <1925@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 90 18:51:00 GMT
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In article <1990May31.161248.20596@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> jwb@cepmax.ncsu.edu writes:
>Isn't tar supposed to be able to write multiple
>physical tapes?  I just tried it on 10.2 and
>got a tape I/O error when it reached the end
>of the tape (heavy sigh).
>
>John Baugh
>jwb@cepmax.ncsu.edu

If you want to use multiple tapes, try pax (/usr/apollo/bin).
It is supposed to support them and it can produce tar and cpio
compatible archive.
If create a link to pax called "tar" and then you invoke it
as "tar", it will accept tar's options and it'll be tar
compatible. By the way pax is supposed to be the IEEE standard
for data interchange, at least if I remember correctly.

Achille Petrilli
Management Information Systems