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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!saluki-news.wham.siu.edu!usenet From: jimd@dutton2.it.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape drive suggestions??? Date: 14 Jul 1996 07:39:49 GMT Organization: Southern Illinois University - Carbondale Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4sa885$cv0@saluki-news.wham.siu.edu> References: <4ru18i$mll@mitzi.rsmas.miami.edu> <DuC0y7.Asx@tigger.jvnc.net> <31E44224.41C6@ucdavis.edu> <4s49h4$cjt@saluki-news.wham.siu.edu> <4s7vvp$n33@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: dutton2.it.siu.edu X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.5 In article <4s7vvp$n33@uriah.heep.sax.de>, j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >Yep. The `ft' device nodes aren't normal tape devices, the only >program that can handle them is ft(8). Joys and more joys. Well, I inherited the machine with the Colorado Jumbo, so I need to use it. If I had my druthers, it would have been a SCSI drive when purchased. Oh well. BTW - the MANual page for FT says nothing about the "-r" parameter. Is that for 'recursive' ?