seek on raw magtape
Chris Torek
chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Tue Jan 7 18:57:47 AEST 1986
Of course, if you wanted to kludge up your Unix kernel, you could
make the block tape device use large interrecord gaps, and then you
could even make a file system on tape. (Did this once work? It
does not in 4.[23]BSD.)
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