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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