I recently disovered a problem with tar-1.13 where it has
apparently changed option handling (one of my least favorite
traits of free software :-). The ``-L size'' option that has
been working for years on tar-1.12 and earlier now fails saying
``Invalid tape length''. The relevant part of the command that
has been working for at least ten years (under other *ix) is:
tar -c -L 3800000 -b 20 -f /dev/st0 ...
Anybody able to shed any light on this (other than install an
older version of tar that works on the systems).
Bill
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To say that UNIX is doomed is pretty rabid, OS/2 will certainly play a role,
but you don't build a hundred million instructions per second multiprocessor
micro and then try to run it on OS/2. I mean, get serious.
-- William Zachmann, International Data Corp
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