Re: can not create a multi-volume archive using tar

2004-07-10 Thread a1111111
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Did you try the -M or --multi-volume option of tar? Corinna Yes, I did. I even tried to force tape size to number below the size of floppy disk -- no success. I have experience with C, so I think I could find a problem, but I think that development could do it quicker.

can not create a multi-volume archive using tar

2004-07-09 Thread a1111111
Sometime I need to move data between unix machines and win2k. I know, that cygwin can use raw drives, so 'tar -cvf /dev/fd0' can do a work for me. But this command does not work correctly with files which is bigger then 1.4MB -- it can not write data to diskettes as multivolume. Did anybody