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Date:      Tue, 7 Mar 1995 15:02:42 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        henryk@gaja.ipan.lublin.pl (Henryk Sobczuk)
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: QIC-80 problem
Message-ID:  <9503072002.AA09995@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <9503071643.AA24708@cs.weber.edu>
References:  <199503071032.LAA00257@gaja.ipan.lublin.pl> <9503071643.AA24708@cs.weber.edu>

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>> I have a 486/66 with FreeBSD.
>> I just bought a QIC 80 streamer and ftp'd an ft filter.
>> It works quite well with tar but only with "B" option.
>> When i try to use a "z" option for tar it hangs after
>> some time.
>> 
>> It would be nice to tar data in a compressed form.
>> 
>> Is there anybody who knows how to deal with it?

You need another option to `tar':

--block-compress        block the output of compression program for tapes



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