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From: m5@lynx.uucp (Mike McNally)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: multi-volume tar
Keywords: format
Message-ID: <7920@lynx.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 90 21:19:38 GMT
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Organization: Lynx Real-Time Systems, Inc., Campbell CA
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Apparently, Interactive System V (and SCO and AIX) tar on 386 PC machines
allows multi-diskette tar archives.  I'm looking for information on if and
how tar marks volumes; is there a special volume header block?

Thanks.

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But he is not an Irishman,  |*|  Mike McNally          Lynx Real-Time Systems
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