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Article #10989Re: 1/4 inch cartridge tape drives & tar
From: steinmetz!dawn!stpeters
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1989 05:07
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1989 05:07
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chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) writes:
> r Write the named files on the end of the tarfile. Note
> that this option does not work with quarter-inch archive
> tapes.
>
>Not only do the docs "appear" to say this, they actually do! And they
>mean it! You can't!
While you can't append to a tarfile, the question was phrased about
appending to a tape. That you can do, by using the /dev/nrst{0,8} devices
and mt (to skip the first tarfile) as well as tar. That may or may not
meet the need that caused the question.
Dick St.Peters
GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY
stpeters@ge-crd.arpa
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: steinmetz!dawn!stpeters@uunet.uu.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: 1/4 inch cartridge tape drives & tar Message-ID: <13094@steinmetz.ge.com> Date: 16 Feb 89 05:07:13 GMT References: <8901231312.AA12139@trantor.harris-atd.com> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: GE Corporate R&D, Schenectady, NY Lines: 17 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 8 Feb 89 20:39:21 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 158, message 7 of 11