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From: gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: multivol piped to tar
Message-ID: <1386@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Tue, 2-Dec-86 05:38:28 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  2 05:38:28 1986
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In article <4613@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>                  ...for all us nonstandard folk running 4.2 or
> 4.3BSD, tar has the `B' option to re-block its input.
> For those of you suffering with `The Standard', if your tar does not
> have a re-blocking option, there is always this trick...

Or you could get a copy of my public domain tar from mod.sources.
PD tar supports the "B" option as do 4.2 and 4.3 tar, it has been ported
to several different `The Standard' systems, and it's free.  It also
supports the new POSIX stuff (owner/group names in addition to numbers;
dumping directories, fifos, /dev, etc).  And it's faster than Unix tar.
I have not tried it with multivol, though I've piped a lot of stuff to it.

I submitted it about a month ago and it should be coming out Real Soon
Now.  Please don't send me mail asking for copies.  Send mail to Rich
$alz and ask him where mod.sources has gone and whether you can
volunteer to help him clean out the backlog.
-- 
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