Appending files to and exabyte tape on a sun Sparcstation

[Gary Blumenstein]

In article <1990Dec17.095133.27905 at uniwa.uwa.oz> toivo at uniwa.uwa.oz (Toivo Pedaste) writes:
>
>We have a Exabyte 8mm tape drive on a sun Sparcstation and would like
>to be able to append files to the end of a tape without having to know
>how many files that have been written already.
>
>The eom function on mt seems to just skip to the physical end of tape and
>then get an error.

How about just using the non-rewinding device and dump, or is that too 
easy?



- Gary

garyb at gallium