From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 1 14:54:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA13110 for current-outgoing; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 14:54:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA13103 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 14:54:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.4) id RAA10254; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 17:54:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 17:54:50 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199702012254.RAA10254@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: andreas@klemm.gtn.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good name for a dump(8) option? Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.current References: <5d065f$h8e@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.current you write: >J Wunsch writes: >> Hiya, >> >> i've implemented an option to dump(8) to bypass all tape length >> considerations, and dump straight to the end-of-tape indication, as it >> is probably most appropriate for all today's tape drives (due to >> compression and/or multiple backups per volume). >> >> How to name this kid? Right now, i've picked key `e' (``end of >> medium'', ``enforce end-of-medium''), lacking a better idea. Are >> there any better suggestions that don't conflict with other existing >> keys? >what about key 'a', which sounds like doing something automatically ?! > a - auto-calc tape length by simply detecting end of tape I like a, presuming its not taken :) -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich