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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!world!tombaker
- From: tombaker@world.std.com (Tom A Baker)
- Subject: Re: Adding to a TAR tape
- Message-ID: <BuC2yB.7v1@world.std.com>
- Keywords: tar tape
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <lsloan.715963681@nova> <BuB4rL.HCt@world.std.com> <33639@samsung.samsung.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 23:08:34 GMT
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- In article <33639@samsung.samsung.com> jarmolow@samsung.com writes:
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- >The problem here is the device name. "rst8" is the "rewind" device.
- >After each operation the tape is rewound. Use "nrst8" instead.
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- You are absolutely correct. Explanation:
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- 1) When I do this trick, I always accidentally type /dev/rst8 first.
- Then I stop the operation and redo with /dev/nrst8.
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- 2) When I realized my error, "world.std.com" crashed before I could
- get back on and retract. So I had to go to work with the real-
- ization that I had humiliated myself before the universe and
- could do nothing about it until I got home that night.
-
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- Thanks for the comment, setting things right.
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- Tom Baker
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