From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 17 18:30:02 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA05921 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 18:30:02 -0800 Received: from kryten.atinc.com (kryten.atinc.com [198.138.38.7]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA05907 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 18:29:52 -0800 Received: (jmb@localhost) by kryten.atinc.com (8.6.9/8.3) id VAA26256; Tue, 17 Jan 1995 21:23:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 21:23:27 -0500 (EST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Subject: Re: Exabyte on FreeBSD? To: Bob Willcox cc: Wilko Bulte , FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 17 Jan 1995, Bob Willcox wrote: > > I guess I'm fairly happy. Multi-file restores have been my biggest > challenge. The interactive mode of restore with the s (skip) option > drives me crazy. I suspect there's something about using it that > I just don't get. the s (skip option) starts counting from 1 not 0, like the rest of the world. how this slipped in to BSD i dont know. just remember that skip is like goto and goto was the most common structed fortran statement and fortran counts from 1 so the first dump of a multidump tape is 1....and remember to use the nrst device when doing multidump tapes and........argHHHHHH! jmb just type 'sendmail -q -v', watch the mail spool empty out and think quiet little thoughts--we hates bagginses, we do Jonathan M. Bresler jmb@kryten.atinc.com | Analysis & Technology, Inc. | 2341 Jeff Davis Hwy play go. | Arlington, VA 22202 ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life | 703-418-2800 x346