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From: jay@gdx.UUCP (Jay A. Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: how do you determine end of tape? (floppy)
Message-ID: <79@gdx.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 90 01:44:06 GMT
Organization: GDX-BBS, Mechanicsburg, PA
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the tar that comes with SCO xenix knows when I gets to the end of a
floppy, and then prompts for another.  Does anyone out there know how
this is done?  I want to write a program that I can pipe the output of
a program through so that I can write multiple floppies worth of data
to foppies.

The reason I want to do this is:

tar zcvf - | floppyswapprogram > /dev/fd0

J