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Date:      Sun, 23 Apr 1995 23:09:37 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@jette.heep.sax.de>
To:        ortmann@plains.nodak.edu
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: bin/358: incorrect argument handling in "dump"
Message-ID:  <199504232109.XAA02387@jette.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199504231730.KAA02845@freefall.cdrom.com> from "ortmann@plains.nodak.edu" at Apr 23, 95 10:30:00 am

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> >Synopsis:       incorrect argument handling in "dump"

> >Description:
> 
> 	The command "dump -0cu -b 8 -B 349525 -f /dev/nrst0 /" gives
> 	an error of "Unknown arguments to dump: 8 -B 349525 -f /dev/nrst0 /".

This is not expected to work.  dump is a really old program with a
very specific syntax (same boat as `dd').

The above line should be written as

dump 0cubBf 8 349525 /dev/nrst0 /

I can't test it right now, but i'd expect it to work this way.

Jörg



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