Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mmlai!burzio
From: burzio@mmlai.UUCP (Tony Burzio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Pre-formatted tapes for HP drives
Summary: Tapes drives and cpio/tar/tcio/unameit
Message-ID: <484@mmlai.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 12:47:39 GMT
References: <1074@statware.UUCP> <26038@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> <9055@bcsaic.UUCP> <9303@bcsaic.UUCP>
Organization: Martin Marietta Labs, Baltimore, MD
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In article <9303@bcsaic.UUCP>, jsadler@bcsaic.UUCP (James Sadler) writes:
> Generaly I like HP and think they do a great job.  Its just that after
> one too many times...

OPINION AHOY! :-)

One thing VMS wins hands down over UN*X is its' BACKUP utility.  It is
quite futile to deal with all the various tape writing facilities
that UNIX provides.  My SE and I have never successfully traded programs
using the tape drive.  Couldn't there be just one program that understood
the 9144 tape drive is brain damaged and took care of the extra
processing?  Perhaps this program could even be user friendly?  The
rule is: if you aren't sure you can save data generated on the machine,
why buy it?

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