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From: mark@intek01.uucp (Mark McWiggins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re^2: Streaming tape and 386/ix
Keywords: stream, tape
Message-ID: <1990Jul26.175853.6008@intek01.uucp>
Date: 26 Jul 90 17:58:53 GMT
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There's a freely available program called 'afio' (cpio clone) that does double 
buffering, recovery of corrupted archives, and is otherwise generally wonderful.
It should make your tape drive stream, if anything will.

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