BSD Tar Question

Chris Maness chris at chrismaness.com
Wed Aug 1 19:37:36 UTC 2007


Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
>
> On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Chris Maness wrote:
>
>> Does BSD tar implementation support splitting the archives?  I have a 
>> 8G file that I want to burn on DVDs.  I used to be able to do this 
>> with the linux GNU tar.
>
> I don't think so (atleast its not there in the manpages). Maybe you 
> can use the GNU version of tar from "archivers/gtar"?
>
> Regards,
> Rakhesh
That did it, thanks.

Chris Maness


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