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Gnu Tar

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From: F. Ochsenbein
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 17:22
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Dear Sir,

A small - but ennoying problem for us - is that the B option
does not seem to work as for the 'tar' where ALL output are blocked
to a standard 4k size. Instead, GnuTar writes 2 or 4 k blocks,
and I can't understand exactly why. A quick-and-dirt solution
for us was to use -b 8 option, but ... we would prefer the standard
solution.

Thanking you in advance for your attention,

Francois Ochsenbein
Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center, France
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From: francois@simbad.u-strasbg.fr (F. Ochsenbein)
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Subject: Gnu Tar
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