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From: tihor@acf4.UUCP (Stephen Tihor)
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Subject: Re: Tape drives and protection of tapes (using tar)
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Date: Sat, 6-Apr-85 15:33:00 EST
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Gee I dunno, the only systems here that can't write ANSI-standard D-format 
variable length record tapes  are out of the box Unix's.  The vendor provided
systems that come with user accessible tape dirves seem to handle ANSI
standard D-format (and block fixed sized record) tapes well.