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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:04:00 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        hmmm@alaska.net
Subject:   Re: spanning
Message-ID:  <199609251204.MAA00266@CoDe.CoDe.hu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960924200506.562A-100000@hmmm.alaska.net> from "hmmm" at Sep 24, 96 08:06:56 pm

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> 
> is there a simple method to span floppies (like pkzip &)
> when cp-ing and/or tarballing?
> 
> sometimes i need to transfer >1.4M files from BSDbox to BSDbox ...

What do you think about tar/cpio/pax?
with gnutar, (the default tar in FBSD), you have to specify the -M option
(if I remember well, it cannot work with compression -z/-Z) - this is a
nonstandard method.

with cpio, you don't need any special, it can generate multivolume archive

with pax, the same is true.

cpio's and pax's method is standard in the UNIX-world.


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	Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu>

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