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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tape drive suggestions???
Date: 16 Jul 1996 18:47:40 +0100
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Jim Dutton (jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu) wrote:
: Hi J"Org, on Jul 15 you wrote:

: > You have been asking for the -r option:
: > 
: >             case 'r':
: >                 doretension = 1;
: >                 break;
: > 
: > Why don't you simply look into the source code? ;-)

: Why isn't this simply in the MANual page ?   ;)

'cos *you* didn't put it there 8(

anorak:/home/brian $ ls -l /usr/src/sbin/i386/ft
total 32
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  bin    119 Sep 17  1995 Makefile
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  bin   3815 Jun  7  1994 ft.8
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  bin  10955 May 30  1995 ft.c
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  bin  13408 Jan  7  1996 ftecc.c

But then, who likes documentation (except the *user*) :-)


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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....