James Trudeau writes:
> Stan graciously offered some assistance which sent me down the
> road to do some more reading, this time in the man pages of the
> HP 9000.  I suddenly, for this project, lost interest in tar tapes.
> Here's the problem partially quoted from the man pages:
>
>   Because of industry standards an interoperability goals, tar does not
>    support the archival of files larger than 2GB or files that have
>    user/group IDs greater than 60K.

You might investigate using pax instead of tar.  Pax is a newer archiving
tool.  It exists on both MPE and HPUX, but I've never used it directly
myself.  I don't know if it has the same file size limit.
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