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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!europa.clark.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!agate!news.ucsc.edu!ese.UCSC.EDU!not-for-mail From: tgs@cats.ucsc.edu (Thomas Gunnar Sparks) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tape file system Date: 8 Apr 1997 04:48:57 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 8 Message-ID: <5icinp$qu8@darkstar.ucsc.edu> References: <5h0pfc$7vg@fu-berlin.de> <5h4s3i$mpl$1@otis.netspace.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: ese.ucsc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-16colors PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38710 : Im planning on writing another archiver (for tape drives) which stores a : catalog at the beggining of the archive to allow quick listings and also : a quick seek to the file you wish to extract. You'd be better off building in better error correction to tar. who cares if your data can be easily reachable if its loaded with errors. Right now the only other solution is BRU, but it happens to be 100$ and I don't feel like paying that at the moment...