Dumping to an exabyte tape drive
Robert Claeson
prc at erbe.se
Wed Sep 12 20:52:35 AEST 1990
In a recent article braun at dri.com (Kral) writes:
>So the $64k question now is: why can't dump properly deal with end of tape?
>It's not like it's a new technology or something.
"cpio" in System V Release 3 deals correctly with EOTs. "dump2" in DG/UX
does it too. Standard "dump" don't (but DG/UX includes good 'ole "dump"
as well for backwards compatibility).
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