From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 7 3:36: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8C1B37B719 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 03:35:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p19-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.84]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN/) with ESMTP id UAA20377; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 20:35:50 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3AA61C64.65033A2E@newsguy.com> Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 20:32:52 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Kargl Cc: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tape device names and devfs References: <200103062118.f26LI3G11355@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@the.obscure.bsdconspiracy.net Possession is 9/10 of the law. Except for Domain Names. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message