Am I misunderstanding the -h option? From the manpage: -h Header output. The tape header block is output at the beginning of each file. This is like -r except -c or -C may also be used to compress the result.
If a header is written (-r or -h), only 32 KBytes are output regardless of the tape blocksize. This makes the resulting image usable as a holding file. I thought the -h was used to extract just the header. The first sentence of the second paragraph above seems to support this notion. Yet when I try it the -h seems to act to include or exclude the header with the rest of the dump. The sentence is obviously wrong about the use of the -r option. So maybe it is also wrong about the -h. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)