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From: garyb@gallium.UUCP (Gary Blumenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,alt.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Appending files to and exabyte tape on a sun Sparcstation
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Date: 21 Dec 90 03:30:31 GMT
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In article <1990Dec17.095133.27905@uniwa.uwa.oz> toivo@uniwa.uwa.oz (Toivo Pedaste) writes:
>
>We have a Exabyte 8mm tape drive on a sun Sparcstation and would like
>to be able to append files to the end of a tape without having to know
>how many files that have been written already.
>
>The eom function on mt seems to just skip to the physical end of tape and
>then get an error.

How about just using the non-rewinding device and dump, or is that too 
easy?



- Gary

garyb@gallium