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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Minutes of the Thursday, April 13th core team meeting in Berkeley.
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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 16:41:14 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <199504192157.XAA10846@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Apr 19, 95 11:57:17 pm
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> 
> As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > 
> > 	SCSI-magtape fixes

they are in already.. happenned the next day..

short reads from variable blocksize devices were broken..
e.g.
dd if=/dev/rst0 bs=10k of=/tmp/xx
when you had an 80 byte record at the beginning of the tape
(standard IBM label) would give an error instead of returning the 80
byte record....

> 
> Can someone elaborate more on this?
> 
> ...
> > 	We should look at X.Y.Z releases every N months (3?) (2.5?)
> 
> I think, 3 months have been the initial intent of WC for regular
> releases...
yes I remmeber that too.
>