[95960] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Unidentified subject!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Thu Oct 22 13:35:56 1998
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 13:14:20 -0400
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
To: robert@ccaz.com
CC: RedHat-list@redhat.com
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robert wrote:
>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.?
The -M format is unique to Gnu tar.
Try -L instead, as it applies to any type of media, not just tapes.
$ tar --help | less and note this line:
-L, --tape-length=NUM change tape after writing NUM x 1024 bytes
With 1440k diskettes, you would unpack using
$ tar -xvpf /dev/fd0 --tape-length=1440
This works as long as the floppies are not compressed.
If their archive IS compressed, try this
rm /tmp/filepro.taz
while :
do
echo -n "Insert next diskette, type y: "
read ans
if [ xx$ans != xxy ]
then
exit
fi
dd if=/dev/fd0 >>/tmp/filepro.taz
done
Then,
$ tar xvzf /tmp/filepro.taz
--
Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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