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From: srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ron Srodawa)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Multi-volume diskette files MSDOS->Xenix/386
Message-ID: <4840@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 25 Jan 91 04:15:17 GMT
References: <4779@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <2953@sixhub.UUCP>
Reply-To: srodawa@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Ron Srodawa)
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI
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In article <2953@sixhub.UUCP> davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>SOunds like you forgot the k option in tar. You can also use the bundle
>package (multivolume to stdout) to read the stuff in and get better
>performance, too.

1. I did not forget the k option.  I think there is something else going
on here.  Reading the Gnu tar documentation, I get the impression it
writes directories at the beginning of each volume of a multi-volume tar.
I suspect that Xenix tar does something like this too.  Obviously, pax
does not.

2. I didn't know about unbundle.  I'll have to look for it.
Ron.

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