/etc/dump (backup) errors

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From: Pete Gregory
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 21:54

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Hi - PTX 1.1.1 on Unisys 6000/80 (Sequent S81) here...

we use /etc/dump - the filesystem dump program here.  two years ago i
wrote a shell-script wrapper for it so the operators could just answer
questions.  that works fine, if i tell dump to write directly to output 
device.  if i tell dump to write to stdout (an allowable feature 
according to the man page), it writes several error messages to the 
screen at the end of the dump that say "DUMP: Failure to acquire 
semaphore", "DUMP: Failure to release semaphore" and "DUMP: Possibly 
corrupted archive" (i'm not sure about the exact text of the last one).

questions:

1. has anyone seen this before?
2. is it fixed in PTX 1.3.1?
3. am i doing something wrong?

thanks.....
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