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From: friedman@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: UNIX tape duplicator request
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Date: 6 Apr 91 00:01:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: JTUCKER%cs-den.prime.com@relay.cs.net's message of 5 Apr 91 22:54:37 GMT

In article <26469@adm.brl.mil> JTUCKER%cs-den.prime.com@relay.cs.net writes:
>cp /dev/TAPE1 /dev/TAPE2 works great if TAPE1 is in tar format.  Try it using
>an OS tape for TAPE1.

   cp is sometimes flaky with me.  It seems to be safer to use dd. 


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