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RE: Unidentified subject!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (robert)
Thu Oct 22 09:41:35 1998
Reply-To: <robert@ccaz.com>
From: "robert" <robert@ccaz.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 06:55:05 -0700
In-Reply-To: <19981022101050.A18456@adbvdesign.analog.com>
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Thanks for the reply,
However, I have tried specifying the -M option to no avail. I guess the
option only works if it was specified when the archive was created.?
FilePro said that it was a Linux specific problem. The gist of what I'm
attempting to do is to get FilePro installed on Linux, and a filepro
database restored to a usable state. Neither the filepro install disks nor
the 21 disk database backup (created on a SCO Zenix Box) will recognize that
the end of the volume is reached and prompt for the next volume in the
archive. I have also tried cpio, which prompts for the next disk in the
set, but keeps asking for the next volume even after the last disk, still
not creating the file that spanned between two disks correctly.
Any suggestions welcomed,
Robert Jones
Robert@ccaz.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Ribbrock (Design/DEG) [mailto:argathin@iname.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 1998 2:11 AM
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Unidentified subject!
robert writes:
[Linux tar and multiple volumes]
Well, as I'm using GNU tar at work on Solaris/SunOS as well (Linux is using
GNU tar), I do the following:
I open up "info" in XEmacs (or any other "info" reader), select the chapter
about "tar", select "Index", browse a bit, find the entry "Multi-Volume
Archives", select it and it tells me that there is a command line switch
called -M or --multi-volume. Quote:
"If an archive member is split across volumes (ie. its entry begins on
one volume of the media and ends on another), you need to specify
`--multi-volume' (`-M') to extract it successfully. In this case, you
should load the volume where the archive member starts, and use `tar
--extract --multi-volume'--`tar' will prompt for later volumes as it
needs them. *Note extracting archives::, for more information about
extracting archives."
For more information, I'd suggest reading the info pages about tar. There's
another info reader than XEmacs, but it's name eludes me right now - I
prefer XEmacs for that job anyway (it's the button with the "i" in it, or
"Help/Info" or C-h i). As far as I remember, the info pages for tar (and
other
GNU tools) are installed on Red Hat Linux systems as well - it's definitely
a
good idea to familiarise yourself with the info pages as well, not only the
man pages. This is especially true for GNU software
HTH,
Thomas (who's still wondering whose bright idea it was to drop the man page
support for GNU software, grrr....)
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