1/4 inch cartridge tape drives & tar

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chuck at trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:
>      r  Write the named files on the end of  the  tarfile.  Note
>         that this option does not work with quarter-inch archive
>         tapes.
>
>Not only do the docs "appear" to say this, they actually do!  And they
>mean it!  You can't!

While you can't append to a tarfile, the question was phrased about
appending to a tape.  That you can do, by using the /dev/nrst{0,8} devices
and mt (to skip the first tarfile) as well as tar.  That may or may not
meet the need that caused the question.

Dick St.Peters                        
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
stpeters at ge-crd.arpa              
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