Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!cadence!cadence.com!bammi From: bammi@acae127.cadence.com (Jwahar R. Bammi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: g++ Part comment, part question. Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 91 16:19:41 GMT References: <10745@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> <1991Feb17.234055.25173@NCoast.ORG> <1991Feb21.181331.784@ultra.com> Sender: usenet@cadence.com (USENET News) Organization: Cadence Design Systems Lines: 16 In-Reply-To: jimh@ultra.com's message of 21 Feb 91 18:13:31 GMT In article <1991Feb21.181331.784@ultra.com> jimh@ultra.com (Jim Hurley) writes: > A question comes to mind - the GNU 'tar' program seems to have extremely > small block sizes built into it, at least this is how I explain the > chain-saw-like buzzing off my hard disk while unpacking files. I've i guess others will be interested too, so i am posting instead of mailing. the makefile defines DEFBLOCKING == 2, so things are done with blocksize = 2 * 512. you can change this by using the 'b' (set blocking factor) command line option, or by recompiling with a large DEFBLOCKING. -- bang: uunet!cadence!bammi jwahar r. bammi domain: bammi@cadence.com GEnie: J.Bammi CIS: 71515,155