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From: jimd@dutton2.it.siu.edu (Jim Dutton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tape drive suggestions???
Date: 15 Jul 1996 06:20:02 GMT
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In article <4scjug$d24@saluki-news.wham.siu.edu>,
	jimd@dutton2.it.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) writes:

>> I don't suppose that I can get DUMP to work with FT, can I ?
>
>Should be possible.
>
>	dump 0uf - / | ft 'this is my dump'

Oh, and by the way, can one do a compressed dump this way ? I
tried dump 0duf 3200 .... and got an "Input/output error" message.