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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Need HELP recovering files from tar damage
Keywords: tar corrupt file
Message-ID: <172@titania.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 18 Jul 89 18:42:46 GMT
References: <4385@merlin.usc.edu> <18567@mimsy.UUCP> <11668@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> <970@mplvax.EDU>
Reply-To: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
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In article <970@mplvax.EDU> cdl@mplvax.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein) writes:
>Maybe that's the only good feature of the DEC TK50 cartridge, the write-lock
>mechanism out front where it can be switched over.  Much easier than the
>write-enable ring on a standard 9-track tape.

Ugh, you mean the write lock is on the drive rather than the tape ?  Surely
readonliness is a function of the tape, not the drive.  How much easier is it
to accidentally forget to switch the write-lock on than to accidentally put in
a write-ring ... does this mean DEC TK50s have *no* good features ?

Rob
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