> From owner-amiga@NetBSD.ORG Tue Oct 11 10:51:51 1994
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   > From: jshardlo@london.micrognosis.com (John Shardlow)
   > Subject: Re: Tar Multi Volume on /dev/fd0
   > To: tron@lyssa.owl.de (Matthias Scheler)
   > Date: Tue, 11 Oct 1994 10:03:10 +0100 (BST)
   > Cc: amiga@NetBSD.ORG
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   > > I tried to write the kernel sources to disk with "tar cvMf /dev/fd0a src"
   > > today. After the first disk was full tar didn't ask for a second one but
   > > continued to write into nirvana.
   > > 
   > > Bug in tar or the floppy driver ?
   > 
   > Neither really. AFAIK tar has never worked for multi-volumes.
   > 
   > Sun wrote a thing called bar which allowed multi-volumes and compression
   > but I think they took it out when they did Solaris 2 !
   > 
   > Maybe GNU tar is supposed to do it but I wouldn't bet much money on it :-(
   > 
   > John
   > 

Hi again,

I have definitely done multi-volume diskette tar under NetBSD and it worked
fine .... Just tell the size of one volume ...

Francis