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From: pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: multi-volume tar
Keywords: format
Message-ID: <1990Aug29.113412.5303@cti-software.nl>
Date: 29 Aug 90 11:34:12 GMT
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m5@lynx.uucp (Mike McNally) writes:

>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?

This is a feature SCO added to tar. All Sysv r 3.2 vendors
for the 386 added this in order to be xenix compatible.

I would like to know if anyone added this feature
(-k option to tar) to pax. I really need a program
that will read sco tar made diskettes and put them in a different
directory using pax' -s flag.
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