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Article #680Re: Two notes on exetoc posting to comp.sources.unix
From: Tom Neff
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 1990 08:29
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 1990 08:29
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In article <13768@diamond.BBN.COM> mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau) writes:
>Two notes on the recent exetoc program posted to comp.sources.unix:
> 1. Yes, I know the company name is spelled Exabyte. So what?
^^^^^^^
But in article <2454@litchi.bbn.com>, he wrote:
> ...
>X * exetoc.c -- A program to read, write, and rewrite tables of contents
>X * on tapes in an exebyte tape drive.
^^^^^^^
> ...
>X#define IOBUF_SIZE KBytes(62) /* Exebyte likes 62KB chunks */
^^^^^^^
> ...
>Xexetoc \- Manage a table of contents on an Exebyte 2GB tape cartridge.
^^^^^^^
So the question, Mr. Chairman, is:
What did the programmer know,
and when did he know it?
[ wild buzzing from spectators ]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Two notes on exetoc posting to comp.sources.unix Message-ID: <15361@bfmny0.UU.NET> Date: 13 Apr 90 08:29:21 GMT References: <13768@diamond.BBN.COM> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff) Distribution: comp Lines: 29