Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 19:40:29 -0700 From: Keith Walker <kew@timesink.spk.wa.us> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Insertion of NUL's (was: Re: -current :) Message-ID: <199707200240.TAA09578@phobos.walker.dom> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Jul 1997 15:22:07 PDT." <199707192222.PAA22048@dog.farm.org>
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> > > 1) Create a very small file > > 2) Copy it to another name > > 3) append to it in vi > > 4) go back to the first one > > 5) append to it in vi > > 6) Edit the first file; there are now NUL's where you did the > > first append. > Oh good grief, I retired my only QIC-02 tape drive because I thought it was screwed up and inserting NUL's. Tapes made with tar (and I think dump, but I can't remember for sure) would have blocks of ^@'s inserted every once in a while, certainly enough to render a tape backup useless. Could this be related to the above problem? Or is my tape drive (circa 1987) actually broke? (Being's how the tape drive is so old, I don't have any DOS utilities to check the thing :-) Hmmm. keith.
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