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From: thorstad@wooglin.scc.com (Brian Thorstad)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: tar on a roadrunner floppy
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Date: 6 Jan 89 23:58:22 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 90, message 6 of 9

Sun wrote a special version of tar for the RoadRunner.  The "bar" command
(does anyone know what it stands for?) should suit your needs.  It does
everything that tar does plus a few things: 1) spans output volumes
(floppy only pre 4.0.1) 2) allows compression of files (via pack) 3) and
some other things I can't remember.

Be warned, the bar commands created by Snap are buggy.  rtfm, then write
your own.

Brian Thorstad
(thorstad@wooglin.scc.com)