Posted-Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:49:04 +0300 (MSK) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:52:56 +0300 (MSK) From: Alexander Chernov To: DJ Delorie cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: djgpp tar bug In-Reply-To: <199701291835.NAA21406@delorie.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Wed, 29 Jan 1997, DJ Delorie wrote: > > djtar expects you to binary split a big tar file. GNU tar adds an > additional header to each floppy. The formats are different! > Ok, but why? I expected from djtar to support tar's format of multi-volume archive. Why don't support it ? (but it's just my wish...) As far as I know, djtar is the only tar program for dos, that supports LFN (yet), so it could be desirable to be tar compatible... Regards, Alexander