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From: marks@AIVAX.RADC.AF.MIL (David Marks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  problems with "rsh tar"|dd
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Date: 29 Mar 91 15:18:42 GMT
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Mark,
     This is a minor point, but you're using the 'B' option on tar and a 1K
input buffer size on dd.  That looks inconsistant, since the 'B'
option (says the man page) means that it will use "20 blocks per record", 
which by my math = (512 * 20) = 10240 = 10K.  Could this be a contributor
to the problem?  Good Luck in any case. 

Dave Marks
Rome Laboratory
marks@aivax.radc.af.mil