march@m.cs.uiuc.edu (08/11/89)
I've heard mention of an undocumented command line option "i" in tar. I believe it may be helpful in restoring corrupted tar files. In particular ignoring blocks of zeros in the archive. Can any of you tell me exactly what it does? Thanks in advance. Steve =============================================================================== Steve March (H) 344-5303 Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois (W) 333-7408 march@cs.uiuc.edu {uunet,convex,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!march "Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist." -- Spock, "This Side of Paradise" =============================================================================== /* End of text from m.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.unix.questions */