Gunnar Ritter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Laurence Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > gzip -d -c a_tar_file.tar.gz | tar tvf - > /dev/null
> > > > gtar: Read 9216 bytes from -
> [...]
> > A tar implementation should only write a warning/error message
> > only when the byte count is not a multiple of 512.
>
> I think it hardly makes sense to impose any requirements on incoming
> data beyond the two zero-filled 512-byte blocks at the end of the actual
> archive, in particular when physical blocking is meaningless as with a
> pipe.
The standard requires the tar archives to be blocked with a multiple of
512 bytes.
J�rg
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