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From: hoffman@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Bob Hoffman)
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Subject: Re: External Sorting
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Date: 31 Jan 91 21:46:40 GMT
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In article <1991Jan30.015657.12840@iecc.cambridge.ma.us> johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
>I expect that start-stop drives still support read backwards.  It's pretty
>hard to imagine that you can read streamers backwards, since they are used
>almost entirely for backup and logging anyway.

I just installed a Cipher M990 1/2" streamer and it will read and
write both directions in start-stop mode or streaming.

	---Bob.

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