On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 12:16:14 -0400, Phil Schaffner
<P.R.Schaffner(a)IEEE.org> wrote:
On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 12:20 +0530, Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> Here is an archive file whixh is bigger than a floppy size. How do I
> make
> it span floppies in the manner of Winzip?
Haven't used this for years, but should still work:
# man tar
... snip ...
-M, --multi-volume
create/list/extract multi-volume archive
...
So, should go something like:
# tar Mcf /dev/fd0 <files_to_archive>
I went through the tar-info manual.I suppose it is very close to what I
need.It might do the compression as well if not passing through the
compression utility,craete a compressed file from archivable files and a
create an archive of this single compressed file.If it has created a
spanned archive it will extract from them too and the described feature
certainy overtakes Winzip.
But I have a great worry of this mount / unmount stuff (Konqueror has
troubled me a lot).I only want to know whether tar is able to access the
floppy device raw ( without mount / unmount cycle ).I do not know enough.
Additionally ( a little off track ?) I must think creators of Konquerors
and Nautilus'es very [KDE , GNOME]unimaginative.Why don't they write a
nice GUI to these advanced abilities of various linux utilities. E.g., I
use d4x for downloading.but I greatly deplore it's inability to import a
broken download,which wget does so nicely.I had halfdownloaded Knoppix,and
when I installed Linux,used wget to finish it through symlink across ext3
to vfat.Basically I miss nice GUIs here in Linux.But guys are nice making
up for GUIs.
Parameshwara Bhat
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