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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Spanning floppy disks
Date: 9 Sep 1996 12:09:28 +0100
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Bill Van Pelt (ludwig@insync.net) wrote:
: How do I write to a 1440 floppy so that an archive will span disks?
: Like the pkzip -& spanning option.
tar -c --tape-length 1440 filespec
or if you really want to be more like pkzip
tar -c --tape-length 1440 --block-compress --gzip filespec
it's all in the man page :)
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....