From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 19 20:09:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA25403 for current-outgoing; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 20:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tau-ceti.isc-br.com (root@tau-ceti.isc-br.com [129.189.2.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA25398 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 20:09:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: by tau-ceti.isc-br.com via rmail with stdio id for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 20:09:18 -0700 (PDT) (Smail-3.2.0.93 1997-Apr-12 #12 built 1997-May-25) Received: from phobos.walker.dom (localhost.walker.dom [127.0.0.1]) by phobos.walker.dom (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA09578 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 19:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199707200240.TAA09578@phobos.walker.dom> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Insertion of NUL's (was: Re: -current :) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 19 Jul 1997 15:22:07 PDT." <199707192222.PAA22048@dog.farm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 19:40:29 -0700 From: Keith Walker Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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.