Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: a1111111 Subject: Re: can not create a multi-volume archive using tar Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:36:19 +0400 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <20040709194419 DOT GS1389 AT cygbert DOT vinschen DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ts18-b234.moscow.dial.rol.ru User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 In-Reply-To: <20040709194419.GS1389@cygbert.vinschen.de> Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > Did you try the -M or --multi-volume option of tar? > > Corinna > Yes, I did. I even tried to force "tape size" to number below the size of floppy disk -- no success. I have experience with C, so I think I could find a problem, but I think that development could do it quicker. Anyway if you point me where to start, I can try. Al -- 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/