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From: mcvax!aivru.sheffield.ac.uk!chris@uunet.uu.net (Chris Brown)
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Subject: Re: More than one tar file on streamer
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Date: 8 Mar 89 15:45:12 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 187, message 7 of 15

In response to Hans von Kleist-Retzow's question in v7n165, the following
command sequence will do the job:

	tar cf /dev/nrst8 files ...
	mt -f /dev/rst8 rew
	mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 1       <- You MUST use nrst8 here
	tar cf /dev/nrst8 files ...  <- And here too
	mt -f /dev/rst8 rew
	mt -f /dev/nrst8 fsf 2
	tar cf /dev/nrst8 files ...

and so on ...

One would imagine that a series of "tar cf /dev/nrst8 ..." commands would
work but I have not reliably been able to space forward to later files on
tapes written this way.

Chris Brown, A.I. Vision Research Unit, Sheffield University 
(chris@aivru.sheffield.ac.uk)