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Date:      Sat, 09 Jan 1999 06:09:53 -0500
From:      Graeme Tait <graeme@echidna.com>
To:        "Aaron D. Gifford" <agifford@infowest.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Graeme@echidna.com
Subject:   Re: Why won\'t TAR cooperate\?
Message-ID:  <36973901.5658@echidna.com>
References:  <199901070249.TAA02192@infowest.com> <19990107190309.446.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> <3696DB34.29D87B41@infowest.com>

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Aaron D. Gifford wrote:

> It still puzzles me that tar when used alone always stopped at the same
> spot every time I tried it. 


I've discarded your earlier posts, but I noticed that the number of bytes at 
which tar stopped was of the form 497*2**19 (those may not be the correct 
numbers) - therein perhaps lies a clue ...


-- 
Graeme Tait - Echidna


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