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, 10 Dec 2004 15:01:15 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin, tar, dlt Message-ID: <20041210140115.GG22056@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 Dec 10 00:51, David wrote: > i'm trying to TAR to DLT using Cygwin. I'm using the command -b 512, but for > some reason, the Tape will max out at 128bytes. If I use a Windows based TAR > program it works fine at 512. Any suggestions? Thanks I don't know the Windows tar, but the Cygwin tar (correctly) doesn't set the buffer size used by the underlying tape driver. Try using mt(1) to set the buffer size in the driver before calling tar. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-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/