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From: malc@equinox.unr.edu (Malcolm Carlock)
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Subject: Proper method of tarring to a pipe, without ``blocksize=1'' later?
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Date: 30 Mar 91 03:42:36 GMT
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When using a command of the form

	tar cf - file ... | rsh somewhere dd of=/dev/rmt0

Is there a way of getting the remote dd to write the tape such that
the blocksize of the final tar image on tape is something other than 1?

I've tried "ibs=1 obs=512", no ibs/obs args at all, and various other
ibs/obs combinations, and a number of conv options.  I still get
"tar: blocksize=1" each time I subsequently try a tar [tx] on the tape
(directly, on the remote machine.)

Grrr.

Malcolm L. Carlock                      Internet:  malc@unr.edu
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