SCO Xenix tape question

[Chip Rosenthal]

In article <126 at bilanc.UUCP> rab at bilanc.UUCP (Richard A. Bilancia) writes:
>Does anyone know how the standard SCO Xenix drivers treat multiple
>tape volumes?

The drivers don't.  You seek beyond the end of a device, then you
get an illegal address error.

However, SCO's tar has a 'k' flag to specify a volume size.  When you reach
the end, tar prompts you for a new floppy/tape/hard disk ?:-).  An 'e' flag
prevents files from being split across volumes.  The /etc/default/tar file
can be configured to automagically take care of all this.
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