13 Dec
2015
13 Dec
'15
12:54 a.m.
Yeah, I just can't imagine using tar with the f option. Even back in
the day when I was writing 9 track magtapes with tar, it would be
something like
tar cvfb /dev/rmt0 10 .
to get tape blocks bigger than 512 bytes. But we never had dectapes and
I think they did their own blocking.
Mary Ann
On 12/11/2015 06:09 PM, Doug McIlroy wrote:
I have no
memory of why Ken used mt1 not mt0. Doug may know.
I don't know either. Come
to think of it, I can't remember ever
using tar without option -f. Direct machine-to-machine trasfer,
e.g. by uucp, took a lot of business away from magtape soon
after tar was introduced. Incidentally, I think tar was written
by Chuck Haley or Greg Chesson, not Ken.
Doug
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