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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: seek on raw magtape
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Date: Tue, 7-Jan-86 03:57:47 EST
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Keywords: tape directory error gap rewrite erase

Of course, if you wanted to kludge up your Unix kernel, you could
make the block tape device use large interrecord gaps, and then you
could even make a file system on tape.  (Did this once work?  It
does not in 4.[23]BSD.)
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