dave (02/04/83)
Does anyone have or know of a fix to tar (tape archiver) which will recoginize when the end of the tape has been reached and exit gracefully. We have had problems with tar leaving parts of files at the end of the tape and not telling us about it. Please mail me at: Dave Furchtgott ihps3!ihldt!ll1!sb1!mb2b!uofm-cv!dave Computer Research Lab The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 (313)-764-3324
terry@Rand-Unix (03/22/83)
A guy here hacked up a version to read/write multiple reels -- I've used it to dump a 300mb file system. I've never had a problem at 1600 bpi, but once, it failed to calculate the length of a short reel at 800 bpi. When this happened, I changed the code so it always treats a reel as shorter than it really is. So, it wastes a little tape, but has worked fine since then. He started with a v7 version of tar that had been modified to continue reading on errors. Let me know if you want it.