Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Streaming tape format wanted
Message-ID: <10650@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 29 Apr 88 19:23:02 GMT
References: <2698@polya.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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  There are standards on HOW to write a tape (QIC-24 and QIC-11, etc)
but you can use whatever you want to generate the data stream. tar and
cpio are popular, with cpio offering some advantages in most
implementations, due to creating directories (a) even if empty and (b)
with correct ownership and data modified. Many versions of tar don't do
this.

  Think of the tape as a serial line; you can write any data you wnat on
it. "Bits is bits."
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me