Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:44:19 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: can not create a multi-volume archive using tar Message-ID: <20040709194419.GS1389@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Jul 9 20:55, a1111111 wrote: > Sometime I need to move data between unix machines and win2k. I know, > that cygwin can use raw drives, so 'tar -cvf /dev/fd0' can do a work for > me. But this command does not work correctly with files which is bigger > then 1.4MB -- it can not write data to diskettes as multivolume. > Did anybody try that multi-volume archives? Did you try the -M or --multi-volume option of tar? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/