Hi CHARLES.

16-Dec-03 02:02:00, CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to ROY J. TELLASON

 RJT>> It all depends on what software is driving it. If you start out
 RJT>> by seeking to the end of what's written (I've already forgotten
 RJT>> how you'd do that since it's been 3-4 years since I was playing
 RJT>> with that), then there isn't any problem.

 CA> The EOF marker is part of the _filesytem_ on the media. No
 CA> filesystem, no EOF marker. ;-)

tar archives have an EOF block as part of the file
by reading the tar using the non-rewinding tape device the head will be
left at the start of the next empty block.  ( eg tar -lf /dev/nrft2 )

Then you can write a secoond tar archive after the first.
it's covered in the tape-howto and the kernel documentation/devices file

 -=> Bye <=-

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