On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 02:43:50PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Humm.  While looking for the file-pad variable, right above it is 
> this statement, which seems like a rather odd way of saying that the 
> blocksize as used is actually fixed at 32768 bytes
> -----------------------
> blocksize "int"
>    Default: 32 kbytes.  How much data will be written in each  tape
>    record.   The minimum blocksize value is 32 KBytes.  The maximum
>    blocksize value is 32 KBytes.
> -----------------------
> Please comment or discuss this.

The maximum is set during configure with --with-maxtapeblocksize.

Jean-Louis
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