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From: YZE6041@vx.acs.umn.edu (david paul hoyt)
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Subject: Re: Standards Update, IEEE 1003.1: System services interface
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Date: 3 Jul 90 18:18:00 GMT
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From:  david paul hoyt <YZE6041@vx.acs.umn.edu>

>                                   With a properly designed ANSI tape
> subsystem, it is easy enough to have tar, and cpio (and even
> dump/restore) use ANSI labeled tapes, and it can be totally transparent
> to the user.

  And better yet, we'll have a standard way of dealing with multi-volumne
tapes.  It's hard enough to backup your own multi-gigabyte disk system, let
alone send large databases to other (potentially non-unix) systems.

david | dhoyt@vx.acs.umn.edu | dhoyt@umnacvx

Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 89