Re: Non-Interactive dump for RISC Ultrix 4.2 [it is]

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From: Eiji Hirai
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:47

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george@tusk.med.harvard.edu (George Planansky) writes:
> This is NOT to be confused with the Sun's SunOS and SGI's IRIX dumps' 
> "b" parameter, which refers to a blocking factor.  (Why doesn't the
> Ultrix dump have this?)

I hate this too.  I'm nervous since I don't know what sort of blocking
factor I'm using when using Ultrix's dump and would like to make sure I'm
using something optimal (8K bytes) for my Exabyte 8200 drive.

Is it safe to to get BSD4.3 dump/rdump
(ftp.uu.net:/packages/bsd-sources/sbin/dump) and use that under Ultrix 4.2A?

Obiligatory whine:  I end up replacing a lot of Ultrix utilities with BSD
stuff (and other stuff, including GNU) every time I do an Ultrix
installation.  I seem to do less replacing under SunOS 4.[12]. Why can't
Ultrix be at least BSD4.3-reno-ish?

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