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  I have been attempting to use gnu's tar 1.09 to backup up my Sony RISC news
on a second Sony (a 68030 version as opposed to my R3000 version) that has
a 150 MB streaming tape drive.  When I use gnutar on my box (under 4.3 Tahoe BSD)
talking to my floppy disk drive unit, I have *no* problem doing multiple
volume saves and restores.  However, when I attempt to use the remote 150MB
cartridge drive on the other computer, I have trouble.  Specifically when
I specifiy gnutar cMf machine:/dev/rst00 , I have no trouble writing a tar
image on the remote drive for the first volume, but when I hit the end of the
first volume everything hangs.  I note in the /usr/adm/messages file the
syslogd writes that the drive has hit the end of tape, but the /etc/rmt process
provided with the distribution does not seem to realize this and just hangs.
What is the fix for this.  BTW I did notice that the distriubtion has a 
define for the compile that implies that the system was defined for BSD 4.2
As you probably know, the way signals are handled changed quite a bit from
4.2 -> 4.3, could this be a bug ?  If so any suggestions as to what to try --
I could be missing something obvious after all :)

							Thanks
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						Dr. Paul Fons	
						University of Tsukuba
						Institute of Applied Physics
						Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken
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