From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue Mar 7 12:04:34 1995 Return-Path: bugs-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA23612 for bugs-outgoing; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 12:04:34 -0800 Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.159]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA23606 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 12:04:31 -0800 Received: by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; id AA09995; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 15:02:42 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 15:02:42 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <9503072002.AA09995@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: henryk@gaja.ipan.lublin.pl (Henryk Sobczuk) Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: QIC-80 problem In-Reply-To: <9503071643.AA24708@cs.weber.edu> References: <199503071032.LAA00257@gaja.ipan.lublin.pl> <9503071643.AA24708@cs.weber.edu> Sender: bugs-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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