Subject: Re: Problems with Adaptec 2940 and Archive Viper 150 Tape Drive
To: Juergen Hannken-Illjes <hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de>
From: None <wojtek@3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/13/2001 08:32:17
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> My man page of tar (-current as of last friday) states:
>
> --block-compress Block the output of compression program for tapes
> or floppies (otherwise writes will be of odd
> length, which device drivers may reject).
>
maybe netbsd tar is different but in linux i use tar -b64 -czvf
and works fine. then i could decompress it with -b64 -xzvf on netbsd