Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 16:39:16 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Daniele Degiorgi <degiorgi AT inf DOT ethz DOT ch>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: djtart/x and multivolume disk
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On 21 Oct 1996, Daniele Degiorgi wrote:

> djtar uses the first sector of all disks as data.
> In fact starting from the second disk the first sector
> contains the name of the file actually in use and the remaining
> length and could be used to check if the right disk is actually
> inserted.

DJTAR doesn't support multivolume tar archives.  If you can add this
support and submit the changes (without breaking all the other cases it
handles today ;-), that would be a welcome addition to its functionality. 

In case you decide to give it a try, the sources for DJTAR are in the 
djlsr201.zip archive.