Re: Newbie: -tsize vs -j

Daniel Davidson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Couldn't you also write a script that keeps adding files one at a time
> to the archive until say the archive's current size plus the size of the
> new file is greater than your file limit.  Then you could just start a
> new file.

This would not help.


> That would approximate what you want to do at the cost of increased
> processor usage and disk I/O.  But if you are writing files to cd/dvd,
> that should not be such a big deal.
>
> I haven't tried this though, so I might just talking out my rear.  If
> you can go to tapes, this becomes much easier to do.

The best way would be to write an application that reads from a named pipe
and that compresses blocks until the media fills up.

Then it needs to behave the same way as a tape drive behaves at EOT.

Jörg

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