RE: Exabyte Eagle TR-3 - TroubleShooting

[Frank Miles]

According to the tar man page:

     -b, --block-size N
              block size of Nx512 bytes (default N=20)
Some other utilities (notably afio) do *not* have this default size.

 -frank (a different one)

On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Carl J. Nobile wrote:

> Hi Frank,
> 
> Are you sure the block size is the same between tar and ftape?  This
> could cause this type of problem.  If I recall ftape ha a 10k block
> size, but I don't remember tar's default size.