🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Nov12.234822.1273@leland.Stanford.EDU> dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes:
>This probably still won't make him happy. He'll want to read tapes
>that were created with a blocking factor of 20 using a blocking
>factor of 20 and tapes that were created with a blocking factor of
>2 using a blocking factor of 2. In other words, he wants tar to

I agree the client is being unreasonable, but I can't remember _ever_
working for a client who was not unreasonable at least some of the time.

>be clairvoyent. If this is the case, all you can do is tell him that
>he wants something impossible and hope you don't lose the business.

On most systems I've used, you can detect the block size of a tape by
doing something like:

	char buffer[BIGGEST_POSSIBLE_RECORD_SIZE];

	n=read(fd,buffer,sizeof(buffer));
	printf("block size is %d bytes\n",n);

Mark S.