Typing furiously on March 05, Bill Campbell managed to emit: > I recently disovered a problem with tar-1.13 where it has > apparently changed option handling (one of my least favorite > traits of free software :-). The ``-L size'' option that has > been working for years on tar-1.12 and earlier now fails saying > ``Invalid tape length''. The relevant part of the command that > has been working for at least ten years (under other *ix) is: > tar -c -L 3800000 -b 20 -f /dev/st0 ...
It works here on my tar: $ tar --version tar-1.13.19 $ tar -c -L 3800000 -b 20 -f /tmp/foo $HOME tar: Remvoing leading `/' from member names [wait wait wait] I don't have a tape drive handy to test that feature, however. I'm guessing you've a bad tape? I don't see anything in the release notes indicating changed behavior for the -L option; v1.12 and v1.13 both take -L NUM, multiplying NUM by 1024 to get the tape size. Kurt -- Don't guess -- check your security regulations. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
