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I use the ASCII headers for portability incase I need to restore to another 
server with a different tar version.

         -Derek


At 06:29 PM 7/25/2006, Jaime wrote:
>On Jul 25, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Derek Ragona wrote:
>>Using tar with a SDLT I set the blocksize at 1024
>>and use ASCII headers (-c)
>
>         Thanks for the advice.  I hadn't thought about block size.  Why do
>you use the ASCII headers?
>
>                                                                 Jaime
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