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- From: drd@siia.MV.COM (David Dick)
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- >From: cazier@mbunix.mitre.org (Cazier)
- >How portable are tar tapes from one machine to another. My experience
- >has been that tar within a vendor's site is portable but to try to
- >carry a tar 1/4" tape from one vendor to another --- that's another story.
-
- The trouble with 1/4 inch tapes is not tar format, but format
- of recording data on the tape: there are QIC-11, QIC-24, and QIC-150
- (and maybe others). I'm not even sure that having QIC-11 or QIC-24
- is even sufficient. However, I suspect all the QIC-150s are the same.
-
- David Dick
- Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company (sm)]
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 118
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