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From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Tape retensioning
Message-ID: <15077@bfmny0.UU.NET>
Date: 9 Jan 90 04:20:23 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
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I think that since there are only a few basic kinds of cartridge tape
interfaces out there, and since 386 UNIX binaries are pretty darn
portable across sibling platforms, it might be a nice idea to compile
and UUENCODE a set of simple binaries for commands that do NOTHING but
retension (for instance) the tape.  Then users without the development
set could grab the appropriate mini-tool and use it.  (Assuming they
got UUDECODE running on a non-development system.)

At minimum, a set of retension sources would be good.
-- 
Stalinism begins at home.  }{  Tom Neff  }{  tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET