current-users: floppy disk I/O problem

Subject: floppy disk I/O problem
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C5ge_R=F8bekk?= <aagero@ifi.uio.no>
List: current-users
Date: 07/08/1995 01:13:05

I ran into a problem when trying to create Multiple tar archives on
floppy disks. When tarring to the floppy, there is no prompt for the
subsequent volumes, but still the tar process completes:

$ ls -l FooBar 
-rw-r--r--  1 aagero  wheel  2097152 Jul  8 00:50 FooBar

$ tar cfvvM /dev/fd0a FooBar
-rw-r--r-- aagero/wheel 2097152 Jul  8 00:50 1995 FooBar
[the floppy disk is a 1.44Mb 3.5"]

$ tar tfvvM /dev/fd0a
-rw-r--r-- aagero/wheel 2097152 Jul  8 00:50 1995 FooBar
Prepare volume #2 for /dev/fd0a and hit return: 
tar: FooBar is not continued on this volume!
Prepare volume #2 for /dev/fd0a and hit return: ^C
$ tar --version
GNU tar version 1.11.2

This exact procedure works fine on both SunOS and Linux, though.

What is wrong?

-aage