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From: klier@cs.tu-berlin.de (Jan Klier)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: ft filter
Date: 29 May 1994 17:38:39 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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I just got my QIC-80 streamer working under FreeBSD and I'm a bit
disappointed at the functionality of the ft-filter program. Don't understand
me wrong, I think it's good as it is right now, only that it could be improved
in some ways.
And as a contribution to the FreeBSD world, I was thinking about doing these
improvements. But before I start, I wanted to know if others are working on
that too, or if not, if others have thought about improving this utility.
The main thing I was planning to include is set management. Given the
prices for tapes it's just a waste to backup some 20MB on a 120MB tape, not
being able to use the rest of the tape.
I'm thinking about a new commandline syntax:
ft <command> [options]
command: read <setname> read the specified set
write <setname> write the specified set
list list the contents of the tape
erase [<setname>] erase specified / all sets
options: -f <devicename>
-z filter data thru gzip
I would appreciate any feedback on this.
Also I'm looking for a good documentation of the QIC-80 format. Relying
on the header files doesn't seem to be the best ideas. Can anybody help
with that?
jan
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Jan Klier Berlin, Germany
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