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Date:      Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:37:34 -0700
From:      Chris Maness <chris@chrismaness.com>
To:        Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh@rakhesh.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD Tar Question
Message-ID:  <46B0E0FE.2000307@chrismaness.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070801092923.H23854@scrat.home.rakhesh.com>
References:  <46B006E2.3070501@chrismaness.com> <20070801092923.H23854@scrat.home.rakhesh.com>

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Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
>
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Chris Maness wrote:
>
>> Does BSD tar implementation support splitting the archives?  I have a 
>> 8G file that I want to burn on DVDs.  I used to be able to do this 
>> with the linux GNU tar.
>
> I don't think so (atleast its not there in the manpages). Maybe you 
> can use the GNU version of tar from "archivers/gtar"?
>
> Regards,
> Rakhesh
That did it, thanks.

Chris Maness



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