Re: [TUHS] TUHS] why does tar have the tape device hard coded into it and why is it mt1 instead of mt0
12 Dec
2015
12 Dec
'15
11:17 p.m.
Forget that I said, "I think that tar was written by Chuck Haley or Greg
Chesson".
Ken confirms that he wrote it, for dectape.
Doug
13 Dec
13 Dec
2:17 a.m.
New subject: why does tar have the tape device hard coded into it and why is it mt1 instead of mt0
Interesting! Chuck Haley is also listed as the author of tar in "Life
with Unix" p. 31 (Libes and Resler, Prentice Hall, 1989). I wonder
where that piece of misinformation came from and what other errors are
in the book.
Anyway, I corrected tar's authorship in the Unix history Git repo
https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-make/commit/d4d153afaa1b0e27deb6…
Diomidis
On 12/12/2015 19:17, Doug McIlroy wrote:
Forget that I said, "I think that tar was written
by Chuck Haley or Greg Chesson".
Ken confirms that he wrote it, for dectape.
Doug
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