Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 22:34:08 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tar hangs 2.2.x system Message-ID: <19970617223408.HF45226@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970617110435.00afb750@etinc.com>; from dennis on Jun 17, 1997 11:04:38 -0400 References: <3.0.32.19970617110435.00afb750@etinc.com>
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As dennis wrote: > >Sorry for shouting, but from some non-newbie like dennis, i would have > >expected to know this. I'm repeating this over and over again to my > >clients on any Unix course i'm teaching. > Perhaps true, but in the commercial world you cant instantaneously > change all of your documents and procedures to fix something that > has worked since the beginning of time. They both SHOULD work, and > changing a basic procedure is quite painful. Sure, they should work. However, every system except Linux has raw devices, and they _always_ have been the first choice for such work. Don't blame us if you started with the wrong way (for whatever reason). You wouldn't suffer from the bug now otherwise. -- 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. ;-)
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