Leonard Sitongia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Star uses a different data structure concept that cannot fail and star does
> > not
> > do an integrity check when extracting GNU tar multi-volume archives. Did
> > you
> > try to use star for extraction:
> >
> I did try using star for my situation. I was not able to get it to work
> in Cygwin. I reported this to you and did not hear back. I have
> switched back to trying to get this to work with GNU tar. I am now
> trying by specifying a fixed tape length
>
> tar -cv -i -M -L 157286400 -b 128 -f /dev/nst0 d/20050419 d/20050420
> g/20050421
>
> (I know that -M is implied by -L)
I thought I did rreply, but I might have missed to do so.
What problems did you have on Cygwin?
Jörg
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