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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Re: Dumping to an exabyte tape drive
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Date: 12 Sep 90 10:52:35 GMT
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In a recent article braun@dri.com (Kral) writes:

>So the $64k question now is: why can't dump properly deal with end of tape?
>It's not like it's a new technology or something.

"cpio" in System V Release 3 deals correctly with EOTs. "dump2" in DG/UX
does it too. Standard "dump" don't (but DG/UX includes good 'ole "dump"
as well for backwards compatibility).

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