Am I misunderstanding the -h option?  From the manpage:

    -h  Header output. The tape header block is output at
        the beginning of each file. This is like -r except
        -c or -C may also be used to compress the result.

  If a header is written (-r or -h), only 32 KBytes are output
  regardless of the tape blocksize. This makes the resulting
  image usable as a holding file.

I thought the -h was used to extract just the header.  The first
sentence of the second paragraph above seems to support this notion.
Yet when I try it the -h seems to act to include or exclude the
header with the rest of the dump.

The sentence is obviously wrong about the use of the -r option.
So maybe it is also wrong about the -h.

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