From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 25 03:12:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA21320 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 03:12:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.EUnet.hu (mail.eunet.hu [193.225.28.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA21254 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 03:12:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.EUnet.hu, id MAA23040; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:12:24 +0200 Received: by CoDe.CoDe.hu (MAA00266); Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:04:01 GMT From: Gabor Zahemszky Message-Id: <199609251204.MAA00266@CoDe.CoDe.hu> Subject: Re: spanning To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:04:00 +0000 (GMT) Cc: hmmm@alaska.net In-Reply-To: from "hmmm" at Sep 24, 96 08:06:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > is there a simple method to span floppies (like pkzip &) > when cp-ing and/or tarballing? > > sometimes i need to transfer >1.4M files from BSDbox to BSDbox ... What do you think about tar/cpio/pax? with gnutar, (the default tar in FBSD), you have to specify the -M option (if I remember well, it cannot work with compression -z/-Z) - this is a nonstandard method. with cpio, you don't need any special, it can generate multivolume archive with pax, the same is true. cpio's and pax's method is standard in the UNIX-world. -- Gabor Zahemszky -:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:- Earth is the cradle of human sense, but you can't stay in the cradle forever. Tsiolkovsky