DUMP is too verbose

[Chris Torek]

In article <138 at ubc-vision.UUCP> razzell at ubc-vision.UUCP (Dan Razzell) writes:
>What is the purpose of DUMP periodically repeating its prompts to
>mount a new tape, ask for retry, etcetera?

I always thought it was so that one could turn dumps over to
`operators' with somewhere from little to no knowledge of the system
itself.  We like to have those who can program to do so, rather
than run dump.  (Unfortunately, good `operator' types are hard
to find; we stick wizards-in-training on dumps.)
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