On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:52:02PM -0400, Len Boyle wrote:
> I suspect that you still will not be able to read the tape with this
> version of tar as the being of the tar file would be missing. With a
> lot of work you might be able to use the tar source as a base to read
> the data and lay it down to disk.

No experience with multiplexed, but gnutar (which is the base for the
provided tar) has little problem picking up in the middle of a tar
stream.  You'll lose whatever file you're in, but should be able to
detect the beginning of the next file and start extracting.

-- 
Darren
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