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Re: Creating a multi-volume archive with tar


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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