Tape dumping programs for Unix/Linux..

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Fri May 3 09:40:06 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raymond Moyers [mailto:rmoyers_at_nop.org]

> If i might use the 1991 mips 3k sysVr4 unix thats on my old sony
> NeWS again as an example, its tar program cant write
> or read from a file. its only provided function is to/from
> the tape device to the file system,, how absurd !

Absurd? It is for making "tape archives..." :) On the other hand,
I'm sure there must be some way to make it work, though, if you
wanted an on-disk archive, I'm sure they would have expected you to
use ar. ;)

Chris


Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
 
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