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From: avg@hq.demos.su (Vadim G. Antonov)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Tar file on multiple tapes
Keywords: tar
Message-ID: <1990Oct10.181018.10634@hq.demos.su>
Date: 10 Oct 90 18:10:18 GMT
References: <1990Oct6.235203.24093@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1990Oct7.160605.13851@hq.demos.su> <1990Oct9.042831.20159@icc.com>
Reply-To: avg@hq.demos.su (Vadim G. Antonov)
Organization: DEMOS, Moscow, USSR
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In article <1990Oct9.042831.20159@icc.com> cbp@icc.com (Chris Preston) writes:
>	  read ans < /dev/tty   #my personal version of gets 
>                            #it's in the fine manual even :-) 

	Unfortunately I've seen shells where it does not work :-(
	(How many BD things are floating around!)

	Vadim Antonov
	DEMOS, Moscow, USSR
	(It is a joke!)