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Re: can not create a multi-volume archive using tar
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 21:44:19 +0200
- Subject: Re: can not create a multi-volume archive using tar
- References: <ccmj7u$6gv$1@sea.gmane.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jul 9 20:55, a1111111 wrote:
> Sometime I need to move data between unix machines and win2k. I know,
> that cygwin can use raw drives, so 'tar -cvf /dev/fd0' can do a work for
> me. But this command does not work correctly with files which is bigger
> then 1.4MB -- it can not write data to diskettes as multivolume.
> Did anybody try that multi-volume archives?
Did you try the -M or --multi-volume option of tar?
Corinna
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