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Re: Creating a multi-volume archive with tar
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:31:38 +0200
- Subject: Re: Creating a multi-volume archive with tar
- References: <274A369893F5FB4099345F006439D9870316C307@bella.corp.resmed.org>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Aug 17 09:06, Peter Milliken wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to write large files across multiple floppies using tar. I am
> using tar 1.13.25 and it writes to the first diskette but then stops - no
> prompt for the next disk or anything.
>
> I searched the archives and found the following:
> [...]
> I found the culprit. It was age old code in Cygwin which should speed
> up reading and writing on raw devices by using buffering. This works
> nicely for reading, but it doesn't work quite as well for writing.
> I've removed buffered writing for raw devices entirely.
> [...]
> Is this fix in the currently available distribution yet? Is so, which
> component of cygwin do I have to update i.e. tar.exe, one of the dll's or
> what?
It's a bug in the Cygwin DLL.
> If it's not currently available, what are my options? :-)
Install a developers snapshot of Cygwin (http://cygwin.com/snapshots/)
or wait for the 1.5.11 release which is due VSN.
Corinna
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