Posted-Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:49:04 +0300 (MSK)
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:52:56 +0300 (MSK)
From: Alexander Chernov <cher AT ispras DOT ru>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: djgpp tar bug
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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