Dumping to an exabyte tape drive

[Robert Claeson]

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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