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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Compress dumps?
To: obrien@leonardo.net (Mike O'Brien)
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 23:17:28 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199505010612.XAA00432@caern.protocorp.com> from "Mike O'Brien" at Apr 30, 95 11:12:46 pm
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> 	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?

been doing it for years...


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