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From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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To: John Hay <jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
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As Warner pointed me out, I screwed.
I typed cbf instead of cfb. tar is not in the same spirit of ls :(.

Sorry for the noise, continue with your local programming....

Pedro.

John Hay wrote:
> 
> ======
>      To create an archive on tape drive /dev/rst0 with a block size of 20
>      blocks, containing files named "bert" and "ernie", you can enter
>            tar cfb /dev/rst0 20 bert ernie
>      or
>            tar --create --file /dev/rst0 --block-size 20 bert ernie
> ======
> 
> John
> --
> John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za