Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff
From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: "Shoe-shining" with 60 meg Wangtek tape on Sys V 386 3.2.1
Message-ID: <15986@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 22 Oct 90 00:07:22 GMT
References: <1990Oct18.152955.14275@uhura.neoucom.EDU> <12808@attcan.UUCP>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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You can also pipe everything through a big 'dd' before it hits the tape

	find blah blah | cpio blah blah | dd bs=2048k of=/dev/rmt/c0s0

This double buffers 2MB at a time.  Watch that tape spin!

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"DO NOT, repeat, DO NOT blow the hatch!"  /)\   Tom Neff
"Roger....hatch blown!"                   \(/   tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM