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Date:      Wed, 1 Mar 95 9:42:50 MST
From:      terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
To:        rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, markd@grizzly.com, freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com
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Message-ID:  <9503011642.AA14033@cs.weber.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199503010828.AAA11127@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Mar 1, 95 00:28:51 am

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> > Half an hour ago, i just thought: `What would people think, is it
> > better to revive the old 1.1.5 ``st'' program, or merge over Julian's
> > changes into our ``mt'' program?'
> > 
> > I'd vote for the latter.
> 
> Please merge the 1.x st program into the 2.x mt program.  We do not need
> 2 programs for this!  (Someplace in the 1.x code I think it even says
> that some day this should be merged with mt(1).)

Just to clarify things:

Is such a merge needed because of non-overlapping feature sets, or is
it because there is not a uniform ioctl() interface to tape devices?

If the latter, would it be easier to modify the tape devices a little
and the control program a little instead of the control program a lot?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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