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GNU Info (gzip.info)TapesUsing `gzip' on tapes ********************* When writing compressed data to a tape, it is generally necessary to pad the output with zeroes up to a block boundary. When the data is read and the whole block is passed to `gunzip' for decompression, `gunzip' detects that there is extra trailing garbage after the compressed data and emits a warning by default if the garbage contains nonzero bytes. You have to use the `--quiet' option to suppress the warning. This option can be set in the `GZIP' environment variable, as in: for sh: GZIP="-q" tar -xfz --block-compress /dev/rst0 for csh: (setenv GZIP "-q"; tar -xfz --block-compress /dev/rst0) In the above example, `gzip' is invoked implicitly by the `-z' option of GNU `tar'. Make sure that the same block size (`-b' option of `tar') is used for reading and writing compressed data on tapes. (This example assumes you are using the GNU version of `tar'.) automatically generated by info2www version 1.2.2.9 |