Re: can not create a multi-volume archive using tar

2004-07-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 10 10:36, a111 wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > >Did you try the -M or --multi-volume option of tar? > > > >Corinna > > > > Yes, I did. > > I even tried to force "tape size" to number below the size of floppy > disk -- no success. > > I have experience with C, so I think I c

Re: can not create a multi-volume archive using tar

2004-07-09 Thread a1111111
Corinna Vinschen wrote: Did you try the -M or --multi-volume option of tar? Corinna Yes, I did. I even tried to force "tape size" to number below the size of floppy disk -- no success. I have experience with C, so I think I could find a problem, but I think that development could do it quicker.

Re: can not create a multi-volume archive using tar

2004-07-09 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jul 9 20:55, a111 wrote: > Sometime I need to move data between unix machines and win2k. I know, > that cygwin can use raw drives, so 'tar -cvf /dev/fd0' can do a work for > me. But this command does not work correctly with files which is bigger > then 1.4MB -- it can not write data to

RE: can not create a multi-volume archive using tar

2004-07-09 Thread Hannu E K Nevalainen
> From: a111 > Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 6:56 PM > Sometime I need to move data between unix machines and win2k. I know, > that cygwin can use raw drives, so 'tar -cvf /dev/fd0' can do a work for > me. But this command does not work correctly with files which is bigger > then 1.4MB -- it ca