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  1. Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!pa.dec.com!ninja!chmist.zso.dec.com!cja
  3. From: cja@chmist.zso.dec.com (Carl J. Appellof)
  4. Subject: Re: 2Gig Rule??
  5. In-Reply-To: shahryar@crc.ricoh.com's message of Sun, 30 Aug 92 05:51:57 GM
  6. Message-ID: <1992Aug31.163925.2416@ninja.zso.dec.com>
  7. Sender: news@ninja.zso.dec.com (USENET News System)
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: chmist.zso.dec.com
  9. Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
  10. References: <1992Aug30.055157.1084@crc.ricoh.com>
  11. Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:39:25 GMT
  12. Lines: 13
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  14. In article <1992Aug30.055157.1084@crc.ricoh.com> shahryar@crc.ricoh.com (Shahryar G. Hashemi) writes:
  15.  
  16. >   How can you take advantage of a 8500
  17. >   when DEC won't even write up to half of the tape.
  18.  
  19. Either close/open the device or do an lseek(fd, 0L, SEEK_SET)
  20. before you get to 2GB.  This resets the file pointer without
  21. repositioning the tape.
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  24. | Carl J. Appellof        |    cja@chmist.zso.dec.com    |
  25. | Open Systems Group            |                               |
  26. | Digital Equipment Corporation    |    This space for rent    |
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