"copytape" makes exact duplicates of most tapes -- Newer version?
Karl Anderson
karl at quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov
Wed Mar 20 00:53:00 AEST 1991
In article <1991Mar19.061406.6519 at leland.Stanford.EDU>,
buc at jessica.stanford.edu (Robert Richards) writes:
|>
|> The program "copytape" makes exact duplicates of SUN 1/4" tapes and
|> DEC tapes and probably others. This includes boot tapes. Copytape
is
|> available by anonymous ftp from,
|>
|> ftp.acsu.buffalo.edu ! in pub/copytape.tar
|> titan.rice.edu
|>
|> However, "copytape" fails on tapes that contains files whose record
|> size changes in a file. [stuff deleted]
|>
|> Does anyone know of a modified "copytape" that can handle this
|> situation?
|>
Does anyone know if "copytape" can, or will someday, copy SUN
distribution CDs
to tape? This would be well-received following SMI's recent,
*ill-received*
(by me, at least) announcement that they will distribute software on CD
only.
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