Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uokmax!d.cs.okstate.edu!klarich From: klarich@d.cs.okstate.edu (KLARICH TERRY JAME) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco Subject: Re: Source code to tar Keywords: tar Message-ID: <1990Nov27.185819.22371@d.cs.okstate.edu> Date: 27 Nov 90 18:58:19 GMT References: <3@medicod.UUCP> Distribution: comp.unix.xenix.sco comp.unix.xenix Organization: Oklahoma State University, Stillwater Lines: 18 In article <3@medicod.UUCP> matt@medicod.UUCP (I am a programmer) writes: > > rsh Miranda "tar cf - /" | dd of=/dev/exab0 ibs=1 obs=1024 > >This is all fine and dandy except it is very,very slow. We tracked the >slowness to dd. So if we could find another program that will format a >block to tape. I cannot find one. If tar read from stdio, we could do >it that way, but it don't. Now, if I had the source code to tar >then it would read from stdio. I can program. You need to get gnutar from uunet.uu.net or somewhere else that keeps the gnu stuff. This version of tar does a real good job. Another archive program is pax. It was posted to comp.sources.unix or comp.sources.misc. I can't remember which. Hope this helps. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terry Klarich n5hts