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Date:      Wed, 07 Mar 2001 20:32:52 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tape device names and devfs
Message-ID:  <3AA61C64.65033A2E@newsguy.com>
References:  <200103062118.f26LI3G11355@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
> The "r" in tape device names has traditionally meant "r"ewind.

Nope. When this was discussed a while ago we got some authoritative
information to the effect that "r" has always meant raw for tapes too.

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