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Old 06-13-2005
bigjeff bigjeff is offline
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Angry tar file size (volume) limiting
Hi

I am trying to create tar files of a whole bunch of files and want to limit them to 50Mb each.
I have tried using the -k option but cannot get it to work.
Has anyone out there had success creating these?

Cheers
Ian