From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 4 15: 5:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D494515164 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:05:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a100.otenet.gr [195.167.115.100]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA29879 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 01:05:20 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 1708 invoked by uid 1001); 4 Nov 1999 22:40:38 -0000 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Writing to Tape. References: From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: 05 Nov 1999 00:40:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: Steve Hovey's message of "Wed, 3 Nov 1999 17:57:13 -0500 (EST)" Message-ID: <86zowt6ftl.fsf@localhost.hell.gr> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve Hovey writes: > I havent use uucp in ages - the one with freebsd has a nasty bug in it > (there is some kind of pointer slippage, where on a restore, chunks of the > ends of some files end up the beginning bytes of others) AFAIK, uucp does not `restore' files. It's used for sending mail, for transferring news batches, as a deprecated replacement of ftp, for a zillion of things, but not for writing to and/or reading from tapes. You probably mean something else, but I am curious to hear more about the nasty bug. -- Giorgos Keramidas, "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message