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From: cbp@icc.com (Chris Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Tar file on multiple tapes
Keywords: tar
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.144737.25776@icc.com>
Date: 9 Oct 90 14:47:37 GMT
References: <1990Oct6.235203.24093@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1990Oct7.160605.13851@hq.demos.su> <1990Oct9.042831.20159@icc.com>
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In article <1990Oct9.042831.20159@icc.com> cbp@icc.com (Chris Preston) writes:
>In article <1990Oct7.160605.13851@hq.demos.su> avg@hq.demos.su (Vadim G. Antonov) writes:
>>In article <1990Oct6.235203.24093@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> jay@alliant.backbone.uoknor.edu (Jay Liang) writes:
>>>Is it possible to tar a single huge file on multiple tapes as dump
>>>would do to handle file systems that are bigger than the tape
>>>capacity?
>
> A solution that uses `read' and `while' follows:
>

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  A single addition:

  BSD and Pre-SysV shells notwithstanding.

cbp
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