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RE: tar and cygwin
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: "'the ones with the green and yellow insulation taste the best mmmm crunchy'" <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 16:18:55 -0000
- Subject: RE: tar and cygwin
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> Sent: 10 December 2004 15:58
> To: Talk Amongst Yourselves
> Subject: Re: tar and cygwin
>
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 03:46:35PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
> >> Sent: 10 December 2004 15:32
> >> To: Talk Amongst Yourselves
> >> Subject: Re: tar and cygwin
> >>
> >> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 12:51:58AM +0000, David wrote:
> >> >i'm trying to TAR to DLT using Cygwin. I'm using the
> command -b 512,
> >> >but for some reason, the Tape will max out at 128bytes.
> If I use a
> >> >Windows based TAR program it works fine at 512. Any suggestions?
> >> >Thanks
> >>
> >> Now, this one sounds like half-a-chicken.
> >
> > That's because the other half is still running around
> madly outside in the
> >farmyard and we can't catch it!
>
> That's the problem with chickens. We never had this problem
> with goats.
>
> cgf
Yes, but they did have a bad habit of chewing through all the wires. That's
why we had to migrate Cygwin to a chicken-based infrastructure in the first
place.
cheers,
DaveK
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