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Subject: Re: Problems with 2940 and 950210snap
To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 15:46:52 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <589.795814032@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 21, 95 11:27:12 am
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In reply:
> Subject: Re: Problems with 2940 and 950210snap 
> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 1995 11:27:12 -0800
> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com>
> 
> > Actually, there are three tape commands mt, st, and ft.  If st is
> > eliminated on historical grounds, then ft should also suffer the same
> > fate.
> 
> Wrong.  mt & st are control commands.  ft should vanish into the device
> driver itself.

Exactly what do you mean by that?  I have been hacking a FULLY QIC compat 
backup/restore [i.e., QIC-40/80, and 113 style filesets] program for some 
time now for FreeBSD.  Would such a change in any way effect my work?

Jim
-- 
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