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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!news.onramp.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.aus.sig.net!midway.evtech.com!travis From: travis@evtech.com (Travis Hassloch x231) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: tar no longer works? residual blocksize=n Date: 19 Mar 1996 23:16:55 GMT Organization: Evolutionary Technologies, Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4inf97$6od@midway.evtech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tahiti.evtech.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2500 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:15683 A friend of mine is having trouble reading his old tar tapes he made under NetBSD<1.1 -- it is giving some kind of block size error and then saying "residual blocksize=n", where n is the blocksize he passed to tar -b. We have tried very many blocksizes; in each case, it gives an error. Is there any way to find out what block size a particular tape is? Are tar files supposed to be portable across OSes? Got any ideas on how to deal with this? This is on QIC btw. -- travis@evtech.com | I don't speak for ETI. | P=NP if (N=1 or P=0) WARNING: Unsolicited commercial e-mail: $500 per message US Code, Title 47 Section 227 (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html) This message may not be redistributed on the Microsoft Network.