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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tape file system
Date: 26 Mar 1997 23:32:34 GMT
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mheath@netspace.net.au (Mark Heath) wrote:

> Im planning on writing another archiver (for tape drives) which stores a 
> catalog at the beggining of the archive to allow quick listings and also 
> a quick seek to the file you wish to extract.

So you're going to reinvent dump(8)? :-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)