From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 2 06:20:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA19395 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 06:20:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA19390 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 06:20:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA19073; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 15:20:37 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id PAA26529; Sun, 2 Feb 1997 15:05:40 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 15:05:40 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good name for a dump(8) option? References: <199702021301.XAA17724@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199702021301.XAA17724@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>; from Michael Smith on Feb 2, 1997 23:31:04 +1030 Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > > I remember that simple aluminum adhesive tape used to do this task for > > us back some 10 years ago, when we had to handle 800 bpi r-t-r tapes > > on our PDP-11 clone. Worked well. :-)) > > I tried that, but all I had was Al panel repair tape. > It peeled and scored the tape around it. Drat. The era i've been talking about was way back in GDR times. I don't know exactly which kind of tape this has been, i think it's been intended as some decorative artwork tape, and has also been available in various colors (as plastic tape), besides of the Al version. We've been recycling a huge amount of old data tapes with this, by cutting off the exposed first 10 or 20 meters, and renewing the BOT label. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)