Does anyone know how do you write a file to a tape, spanning across more than 1 tape? Also, how do you read from it? A collegue of mine came over this at work and he was asking me about it. Also, what are the advantages or disadvantages of using cpio versus tar for archiving? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Regards, C. J. Tan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ C. J. Tan E-mail: cjtan@acm.org Telephone: 1-403-220-8038 tanc@cuug.ab.ca 1-403-606-4257 URL: <A HREF="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc"><A HREF="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc</A">http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc Facsimile: 1-403-284-1980 "An engineer made programmer is one who attempts to solve a problem, A programmer made engineer is one who knows how to solve a problem." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e