Re: TAR suggestion...

[Dennis Pund]

Yes, a program to split the file over several Media volumes would be a
good thing.  Either way would make me happy.  The change to TAR seemed to
be the easiest and quickest solution ( I haven't read the code so I don't
know).  I can also see a lot of potential in a program that can split a 
large file across multiple media volumes, or multiple files.

I look forward to either or both solutions.  Thanks for listening to my
suggestion. 

-Dennis 

On Wed, 1 May 2002, Paul Eggert wrote:

>> From: Dennis Pund <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 18:26:36 -0500 (EST)
>> 
>> foo my.tar.gz | tar -xzOf - | tar -cMf - -L 650000 - | bar
>
>Something like that would be nice, yes.
>
>However, doesn't this problem occur regardless of the format of the
>file?  That is, I could see you having exactly the same problem with a
>cpio file, or a big video file, etc.  So it seems to me that a generic
>tool would be preferable to having only tar do it.
>

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