Another NS3.0 feature I didn't know about

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From: David Meyer
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 00:19

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Lately there have been several posts about NS3.0 features that are  
undocumented; at least, they're undocumented if you rely on the on-line  
manuals.  I just found a new one (to me, anyway) - I apologize if this was  
already posted and I'm wasting bandwidth.

If you drag a file (or folder) to a floppy disk, and the file is too large,  
the workspace manager now asks if you want to create a compressed multi-volume  
archive.  It appears to use gnutar in some fashion.

Question:  how do you do this from a shell command-line?  I spent a while  
trying to figure this out - and was about to post asking for help - when I  
discovered that NS3.0 would do it for me.

				Dave

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David M. Meyer                             Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
dmm0t@rincewind.mech.Virginia.EDU          University of Virginia
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Subject: Another NS3.0 feature I didn't know about
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