Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 09:31:56 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Cc: degiorgi AT inf DOT ethz DOT ch, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: djtart/x and multivolume disk
In-Reply-To: <199610230108.VAA09206@delorie.com>
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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > 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. 
> 
> DJTAR has always handled multi-volume archives.  How do you think I
> got the gcc sources to my PC before I was networked?  However, it
> expects the file to be split (as in bin/split.exe) into 1440K chunks,
> dd's onto the floppies, and djtar'd off them on the PC.

Hmm...  That's not what I had in mind when I thought about multi-volume
archives.  I stand corrected, though.