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From: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: TAR DOES NOT SWAP BYTES
Message-ID: <578@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 16:44:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 16:44:09 1985
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Reply-To: jsq@im4u.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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>I think the problem is with the 3B20 tape drive, not with "tar" on the 3B20.
>Some tape controller (which I think they've junked in favor of a sane one)
>imposes a rather small minimum block size; "tar cb 20 ..." exceeds this
>limit.

The limit is 10, and you also have to specify the blocksize manually
when extracting a tape, as well as when writing one.
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John Quarterman,   UUCP:  {ihnp4,seismo,harvard,gatech}!ut-sally!jsq
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