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Date:      Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:50:05 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Cc:        akyol@wireless.Stanford.EDU
Subject:   Re: Help on block size in tar
Message-ID:  <199608240650.IAA09124@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <321E5933.102F11D5@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Aug 23, 96 06:21:55 pm"

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As Julian Elischer wrote:

> > What is the default blocksize of tar on FreeBSD, I have made a tape
> > on a freebsd system and now cannot read it on a linux system.

> it may be more complicated...
> it might be teh TAPE DRIVE complaining...

Anyway, i think the default blocksize is only 512 bytes.  This should
also pass any variable-length driver.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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