cygwin, tar, dlt

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec 10 00:51, David wrote:
> i'm trying to TAR to DLT using Cygwin. I'm using the command -b 512, but for 
> some reason, the Tape will max out at 128bytes. If I use a Windows based TAR 
> program it works fine at 512. Any suggestions? Thanks

I don't know the Windows tar, but the Cygwin tar (correctly) doesn't
set the buffer size used by the underlying tape driver.  Try using mt(1)
to set the buffer size in the driver before calling tar.

Corinna

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