From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 30 23:13:17 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA15117 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 23:13:17 -0700 Received: from caern.protocorp.com ([198.147.97.66]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA15111 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 23:13:15 -0700 Received: from caern.leonardo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by caern.protocorp.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with ESMTP id XAA00432 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 23:12:48 -0700 Message-Id: <199505010612.XAA00432@caern.protocorp.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Compress dumps? Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 23:12:46 -0700 From: "Mike O'Brien" Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just a thought, but has anyone given any thought to running the "dump" data stream through 'gzip' on its way to the tape, so that we don't have to buy quite as many QIC-80 tapes? Sort of like the regular CMS 'tape' program does under DOS/Windows? Mike O'Brien