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From: cap+@cs.cmu.edu (Chris Paris)
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Subject: Re: multi-floppy backup
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.171500.8132@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 25 Apr 91 17:15:00 GMT
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In article <1991Apr24.143143.18155@cs.cmu.edu> eht@cs.cmu.edu (Eric Thayer) writes:
>new product offering RSN (real soon now) from Agog which does compression as
>well as multifloppy.
>
I did some work a while ago towards extending GNU tar to allow compression
while it's in its multivolume mode. More pressing things drove me away, but
I don't think the problem is very difficult, just a matter of someone
taking the time to do it. Hopefully this will happen soon. Long live 
free software.

/cap