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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:26:28 +0200
From: Bernd Walter <ticso@mail.cicely.de>
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Subject: How to write to multiple tape drives
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I want to use multiple tapes drives at the same time so I
need a way to send or read data without having to block.
aio_* is not a solution because it's not portable to NetBSD.
Is there another portable solution than vfork?

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B.Walter              COSMO-Project         http://www.cosmo-project.de
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