On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > > Why are there always utilities to do this? > > > > What would happen if I wrote a simple program to output the file in volumes > > of a certain size, and then used "cat" to stick em end to end? > > that works. I had to do this a few times.
I actually have a similar problem myself... I would like to back up by debian system with my non-linux-compatible tape drive. My theory is that I can dump it in say 20 MB volumes to a file on a DOS partition, and use dos to throw it onto the tape. The tape can hold about 400 MB --> the size limit will come from how much space I can free in my Win95 partition which is only 100 megs and is nearly full. I have read the manpage for afia -- it supports volumes. Is there any way I can tell it to output only "volume 3" once and next time only "volume 4"? I am thinking I should have it dump to a symlink and make the symlink point to /dev/null for all but the volume I want each time... is this feasible? Is there a better way? (Of course the _right_ way would be to write a driver for my tape drive.) (I expect to mount my system readonly to do this, but I could mount a ramdisk to hold the symlink... still a pita probably.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language."
