Source code to tar

[KLARICH TERRY JAME]

In article <3 at medicod.UUCP> matt at medicod.UUCP (I am a programmer) writes:
>
>	rsh Miranda "tar cf - /" | dd of=/dev/exab0 ibs=1 obs=1024
>	
>This is all fine and dandy except it is very,very slow.  We tracked the
>slowness to dd.  So if we could find another program that will format a
>block to tape.  I cannot find one.  If tar read from stdio, we could do
>it that way, but it don't.  Now, if I had the source code to tar
>then it would read from stdio.  I can program.

You need to get gnutar from uunet.uu.net or somewhere else that keeps the
gnu stuff.  This version of tar does a real good job.  Another archive
program is pax.  It was posted to comp.sources.unix or comp.sources.misc.
I can't remember which.  Hope this helps.

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Terry Klarich <klarich at d.cs.okstate.edu> n5hts