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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu
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- >From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- >I disagree. There are just too many organisations using ANSI format magtapes.
- >Tar and CPIO should both be retained, but the ability to read and write
- >standard ANSI magtapes... if the hardware is available... should be part...
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- Uh, Peter, go back and look at what Doug wrote. He never said anything,
- either positive or negative, about the ability to use ANSI magtapes. The
- point is that the ANSI magtape format assumes a storage medium which has
- notions like block boundaries and tape marks, and it is grossly mismatched
- to the requirement for a Unix archiving format.
-
- >...So for that matter should such things
- >as different receive and transmit baud rates (ever hear of V.23 modems?),
- >but that's another point.
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- Peter, would it be too much to ask whether you have *read* the standards
- you are criticizing? 1003.1 supports split baud rates.
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- Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
- henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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- Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 91
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