GNU tar

[William Bader]

In article <1051 at faatcrl.UUCP> jimb at faatcrl.UUCP (Jim Burwell) writes:
 
>   Has anyone gotten GNU tar's multivolume option working on a 1/4" SCSI tape
>   drive ?  I'm trying to use this option on a Sun 3/160..  It seems like it
>   doesn't know when it hits the end of the tape, and mistakes it for an IO error.
>   I'd like to know if anyone has a fix for this, before I start hacking :-).

I have a version of pdtar that I modified to read a /etc/default/tar file
like the tar on Xenix.  It can get the volume size from the file to make
multi-volume archives.