Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 10:21:53 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
cc: merser <merser AT image DOT dk>, DJGPP <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: tar / djtar span disk?
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On Mon, 18 May 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> At 07:45  5/18/1998 +0200, merser wrote:
> >I downloaded som big files for my LINUX system, which isn't connected to the
> >web. Can djtar span disks?
> 
> At present, DJTAR cannot archive at all, only unpack tar archives. However,
> I think maybe the DJGPP port of GNU tar can do what you want.

Yes, the DJGPP port of GNU Tar supports spanning several disks.

However, please note that currently, Tar doesn't support writing directly
to the floppy at the BIOS level, so you might have difficulties reading
those floppies on Linux unless the version of Tar there supports DOS
floppies.  DOSEmu will probably help, though.