Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!att!icus!dasys1!jpr
From: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Xenix tar format
Summary: Tandy 6000's tar does span volumes
Message-ID: <6743@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 20:43:18 GMT
References: <14605@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <421@marob.MASA.COM>
Reply-To: jpr@dasys1.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
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In article <421@marob.MASA.COM> daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
>Tar has always choked on files which are larger than the backup volume.
>If there is a magical workaround for this, I wish someone would share it.

On all versions of Xenix issued for the Tandy 12-16-6000 series of machines,
tar was and is capable of spanning multiple floppies, both on reading from,
and writing to, an archive.
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