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- From: sherwood@fenris.space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
- Subject: tape problems
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.012303.17033@kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca>
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- Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 01:23:03 GMT
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- I'm using an exabyte 8200 on a Next:
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- Why does this work
- cat filename > /dev/nrxt0
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- but
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- tar -f /dev/nrxt0 filename
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- comes back with an error.
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- I've tried using gnutar also. No diff.
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- I've tried various incantations of mtset to turn on and off fixed block mode.
- No go.
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- Ideas?
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- sgb
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