Tape dumping programs for Unix/Linux...

From: Douglas H. Quebbeman <dquebbeman_at_acm.org>
Date: Thu May 2 18:15:18 2002

> Keep in mind one thing: engineers who spend their lives working on tape
> hardware thought it was important enough to be able to signal recovered
> errors ... for a reason.

Engineers are great- they're like laser beams.

They are intense and highly focusable.

But they don't illuminate a wide area when focused.

OTOH, take the lowly, dim incandescent lightbulb. Not
intense. Not very focused. But it lights up the whole room.

Ok, now that everyone's got me pegged as the dim bulb in
this group... (didn't think I was going to leave that
one for someone else, did you?), let me finish my thought...

Anyway, my point is that sometimes engineers are so
focused that they don't see the big picture. But I'm
not disagreeing about the need to know about read
errors (or write errors for that reason).

Regards,
-dq
Received on Thu May 02 2002 - 18:15:18 BST