Cameron Simpson wrote:
I have also thought of a much simpler way to solve your problem. The trailer record is the source of all our pain. Write a small perl or python or C program that seeks to the end of stdout minus the length of the trailer record then execs a "tar cf - ..." for you. Thus:
It's been ages since I looked at the tar source but I could have sworn it tried to do that itself if it could seek on the media.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
