Ryan Jud Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha escrit: > I would rather be able to add it directly to the tar archive from the > stream: > > % create_data | tar -rf existing_tar_archive.tar - >
There is a serious obstacle to this: tar needs to know beforehand the size of the file it is archiving. > If not, would this be a friendly addition to tar? It would, certainly. But I don't think it is possible to implement due to above restriction. Regards, Sergey
