Re: [newbie] tar > CD

2003-10-17 Thread Michael Adams
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:51:00 +0100 "Tony S. Sykes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael, > > This depends on how you want to use the tar files. You can tar and > then use split. > > Tony. > > -Original Message- > From: Michael Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 17,

Re: [newbie] tar > CD

2003-10-17 Thread Raffaele Belardi
man tar lists: -L, --tape-length N change tapes after writing N*1024 bytes Unfortunately it seems it is not able to work together with 'z' (compress) option. If you type: tar cf test.tar -L 20 documents/ tar will create a first archive named test.tar, then stop requestin

Re: [newbie] tar > CD

2003-10-17 Thread jon remener
You can make one big archive and then use the split command(split -b 700m filename). You can then use cat to put them back together. Michael Adams wrote: Does anyone have a one liner that will tar.bz to CD sized volumes. TIA -

RE: [newbie] tar > CD

2003-10-17 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Michael, This depends on how you want to use the tar files. You can tar and then use split. Tony. -Original Message- From: Michael Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 10:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] tar > CD Does anyone have a one liner that