On Jan 31, 2001, "John R. Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> And I think it can handle incrementals because it is given multiple
> timestamps to compare against and appears to add up sizes between the
> values, which would amount to an incremental.

Which doesn't mean it would do incrementals the same way GNU tar
does.

Another issue is that calcsize may not take ``holes'' in files into
account, which GNU tar does.

I think :-)

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