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From: steve@robobar.co.uk (Steve Bleazard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: QIC and Xenix tapes
Keywords: QIC standards, Xenix tape and tar
Message-ID: <1990Jun12.072401.6149@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 12 Jun 90 07:24:01 GMT
References: <777@netmbx.UUCP>
Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND.
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In article <777@netmbx.UUCP> daniel.d@netmbx.UUCP (Karl-Peter Huestegge) writes:
>
>Here are two tables and a short description how to append tar files 
>under Xenix 386GT.
>
The procedure described works fine, however, a word of caution.  If any
of the archives develop a hard error, _all_ the archives after the one with
the error _may_ be unreadable.  This has happened to me, using Xenix 386 and
a QIC-24 / 11 compatible Archive tape drive.

Steve
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