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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:44:19 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: can not create a multi-volume archive using tar
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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

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