Re: tar utility&manual discrepancy?

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Bretislav Regner wrote:

> Tar manual:
> To check for discrepancies in an archive immediately after it is written,
> use the --verify (-W) option in conjunction with the --create (-c)
> operation.  ... In multi-volume archives, each volume is verified after it
> is written, before the next volume is written.
> Wow, it can verify multi-volume archives!
> 
> tar -cW -M --file=a:\archive.tar *.*
> tar: Cannot verify multi-volume archives
> ???????????
> Or am I Making any mistake?
> (tar Version 1.12, dos)

The manual is wrong (and in general, the manual shipped with Tar 1.12 
needed a LOT of work).  I don't know whether this is fixed in Tar 1.13, 
but since there's no DOS port of that version, it might not be relevant 
for you.  The last version ported to DOS is 1.12a, available here:

  ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/tar112ab.zip

(This still cannot verify multi-volume archive, but at least it has some
other bugs solved.)