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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Front end for DUMP needed
Message-ID: <14195@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 88 22:23:29 GMT
References: <12447@steinmetz.ge.com>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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Capsule summary: someone wants a `friendly' front-end for dump that
handles multiple dumps on a single tape.

The most insidious problem is that dump assumes that it can talk to
a human operator by reading `/dev/tty'.  Solve that, and you should
be able to run dumps from another program.  At a minimum, this requires
writing a program that uses ptys (so that dump can have a `control
terminal' that is in fact a program).

This is a good argument for rewriting dump.
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