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From: vikki@e40-008-11.MIT.EDU (Vikki King)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] multi volume tar
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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 17:59:10 GMT
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: dist IS gnu tar, and supports "multivolume" with -M.  I don't know why
: it doesn't detect end-of-media, but:
: 
: I _know_ it supports multi-TAPE archives, with the -L length option; I
: make my backups this way, to a 60Mb QIC drive, using -L 60000
: 
: Try "tar +help".

Does anyone know why it isn't possible to pause GNU/386bsd's tar +help output
by piping it to more?  It's as if it's not being send stdout.  Could it be
going to stderr instead?

-John
jackson@a1.mec.mass.edu or vikki@athena.mit.edu