Re: [Bug-tar] FeatureRequest: add K, M, G, T tags to the -L option

[Renich Bon Ciric]

> Yes, that's reasonable.  I have installed the attached patch.  It allows
> for using suffix prefixes with -L and --record-size options.  Notice,
> that if the argument to -L has no size suffix, it is still treated as
> kilobytes.

This is very useful! Thank you for the hard work and letting us all
benefit from it ;)

> It can be done using the --new-volume-script option with the
> script from subsection 9.6.1 of the Tar Manual[1].

Understood. Very useful too. It would be nice, though, if you could,
later on, implement an --auto-rename or -ar option so no need for a
script file.

In any case, thank you so much, Sergey, for the work.