Xenix tar format

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

In article <421 at marob.MASA.COM> daveh at marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
>Tar has always choked on files which are larger than the backup volume.
>If there is a magical workaround for this, I wish someone would share it.

On all versions of Xenix issued for the Tandy 12-16-6000 series of machines,
tar was and is capable of spanning multiple floppies, both on reading from,
and writing to, an archive.
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