From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 9 03:09:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA15958 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 03:09:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hera.webcom.com (hera.webcom.com [209.1.28.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA15950 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 03:09:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: from kigal.webcom.com (kigal.webcom.com [209.1.28.57]) by hera.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id DAA11843; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 03:08:58 -0800 Received: from [204.143.69.49] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 25484459; Sat Jan 09 03:06 PST 1999 Message-Id: <36973901.5658@echidna.com> Date: Sat, 09 Jan 1999 06:09:53 -0500 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: "Aaron D. Gifford" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Graeme@echidna.com Subject: Re: Why won\'t TAR cooperate\? References: <199901070249.TAA02192@infowest.com> <19990107190309.446.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> <3696DB34.29D87B41@infowest.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message