Hi all, I was pondering on the problem of splitting output over multiple mountable media, and discovered the following:
$ tar czf foo elmfract $ tar czf - elmfract > bar $ ls -l foo bar -rw-r--r-- 1 tgakem users 10240 Mar 29 16:59 bar -rw-r--r-- 1 tgakem users 7950 Mar 29 16:59 foo The file bar is a valid archive, but contains trailing garbage. Any idea how this comes about? It does not happen if the z flag to tar is not present. I noticed this when I wrote a small program that takes input from stdin (through a pipe), and writes this to different files on different volumes of a mountable medium (say, floppies). Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
