Can anyone give me any good reasons why these programs are unable to handle multi-volume tapes? (We're running 4.1, but our System V documentation makes no mention of this ability for cpio, and 4.1 tar doesn't mention it either). -- {ihnp4 hao philabs sdcrdcf ucbvax!nbires}!stcvax!lat Larry Tepper Storage Technology, MD-3T, Louisville, CO 80028 303-673-5435