how universal is tar format? SYSV?

Piet Beertema piet at mcvax.UUCP
Thu Mar 28 23:34:29 AEST 1985


	>The only problem I have had with tar is large blocks
3B machines can't read tape blocks larger than 8K. So carefully choose the
blocking factor when making a tar taoe for such machines.

-- 
	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam
	...{seismo,okstate,garfield,decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet



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