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From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: how universal is tar format? SYSV?
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Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 08:34:29 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 28 08:34:29 1985
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Reply-To: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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	>The only problem I have had with tar is large blocks
3B machines can't read tape blocks larger than 8K. So carefully choose the
blocking factor when making a tar taoe for such machines.

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	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam
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