Xenix tar format

[Dave Hammond]

In article <14605 at agate.BERKELEY.EDU> ked at garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
>Does anyone know how SCO Xenix modifies the tar format to cover
>files that are spread over two or more floppies.  tar(F) does NOT
>describe this.

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.

BTW, are there *any* copy/backup utilities besides `dump' which do
allow files to span volumes ?

Dave Hammond
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