Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 18:42:39 -0500
Message-Id: <199701292342.SAA26614@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: cher AT ispras DOT ru
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <Pine.SOL.3.95.970129214725.11983B-100000@sigma> (message from
	Alexander Chernov on Wed, 29 Jan 1997 21:52:56 +0300 (MSK))
Subject: Re: djgpp tar bug


> 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...)

Because it supported the multi-volume format I used ten years ago.  On
Unix:

tar cvf /tmp/foo.tar .
split /tmp/foo.tar 1440k /tmp/foo-split
dd if=/tmp/foo-split.000 of=/dev/fd1
dd if=/tmp/foo-split.001 of=/dev/fd1

> 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...

You've got the sources . . .