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  From: Allan <allan@choska.bold.net.au>
  To  : Stephen Donaldson <steve@cyberqual.com>
        <aman2000@mundomail.net>
  Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 21:45:53 +1030

Re: spanning to multiple disk a zipped document in linux

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Stephen Donaldson wrote:
> Use gzip to compress the files, then use the tar command with the -k switch eg
> 
> tar cvfk [option] [your_file] will span multiple disks, when one is full tar
> will prompt you for another.
> 
> See man tar for more details

Try tar cvzMf archive.tgz archive directory.   "-M" is span multiple
volumes, "-z" is gzip (un)compress.

Allan 

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