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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.uwa.edu.au!disco.iinet.net.au!wa.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.ac.za!quagga.ru.ac.za!howland.erols.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde.nde.swri.edu!news.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!panix!news1.erols.com!news.bconnex.net!news.abs.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!van-bc!n1van.istar!van.istar!west.istar!ott.istar!istar.ne t!tor.istar!east.istar!news.nstn.ca!coranto.ucs.mun.ca!news.unb.ca!agate.nbnet.nb.ca!news From: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca (Lance Cavener) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: ideal parameters for backup tape Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 13:24:21 GMT Organization: Senarius Inc. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <51m8sp$afs@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> References: <323954B8.167EB0E7@innet.be> <51e1gk$cv2@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> <51ghpe$qh1@luva.lb.bawue.de> <51gugv$818@agate.nbnet.nb.ca> <51k5ch$hqm@luva.lb.bawue.de> Reply-To: cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: mctnts03c39.nbnet.nb.ca X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:47451 comp.unix.questions:87764 comp.unix.misc:25133 comp.unix.solaris:82763 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4886 On stardate 16 Sep 1996 20:13:37 +0200, migieger@luva.lb.bawue.de (Michael Giegerich) sent holographic email and wrote: >You don't have to tell it the length. >You actually TELL dump how many bytes it can store on >the tape using parameter ``B''. Well glad the man page for dump tells me that.. Not.. I think I have a old version or something. -- ,-------------------------------------------------------, |Lance Cavener Systems Administrator | |cavenerl@nbnet.nb.ca Senarius Inc. | |admin@novacon.com | |"Microsoft sent 54 programmers to Apple? You lie......"| `-------------------------------------------------------'