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From: cbp@icc.com (Chris Preston)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Tar file on multiple tapes
Keywords: tar
Message-ID: <1990Oct13.194650.6499@icc.com>
Date: 13 Oct 90 19:46:50 GMT
References: <1990Oct6.235203.24093@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1990Oct7.160605.13851@hq.demos.su> <1990Oct9.042831.20159@icc.com> <1990Oct10.181018.10634@hq.demos.su>
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In article <1990Oct10.181018.10634@hq.demos.su> avg@hq.demos.su (Vadim G. Antonov) writes:
>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!)

Yes, I did a follow-up that this is not necessarily so outside of
SysV shell.  

Just check with your local GRU chief and see if they can't give
you something a little more up to date, eh?  (Hmmmmm, 1/2 :-) 


cbp
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