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Subject: Re: BSD Tar Question
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Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
>
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Chris Maness wrote:
>
>> Does BSD tar implementation support splitting the archives?  I have a 
>> 8G file that I want to burn on DVDs.  I used to be able to do this 
>> with the linux GNU tar.
>
> I don't think so (atleast its not there in the manpages). Maybe you 
> can use the GNU version of tar from "archivers/gtar"?
>
> Regards,
> Rakhesh

    Why not use tar -c[j|z]vf - | split ? See split(1) for more info.
-Garrett