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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: DUMP is too verbose
Message-ID: <1450@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-May-86 21:50:31 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 10 21:50:31 1986
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Reply-To: chris@maryland.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Organization: University of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Sci.
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In article <138@ubc-vision.UUCP> razzell@ubc-vision.UUCP (Dan Razzell) writes:
>What is the purpose of DUMP periodically repeating its prompts to
>mount a new tape, ask for retry, etcetera?

I always thought it was so that one could turn dumps over to
`operators' with somewhere from little to no knowledge of the system
itself.  We like to have those who can program to do so, rather
than run dump.  (Unfortunately, good `operator' types are hard
to find; we stick wizards-in-training on dumps.)
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