Date: 8 May 2000 00:53:35 +0200 From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Undocumented tape devices in pax(1) Message-ID: <8f4s5f$1nfa$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <20000507102848.A35845@dragon.nuxi.com> <200005072156.OAA11982@mass.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> The 'r' prefix for tape devices is entirely unrelated to the 'r' prefix
> for disk devices.
I'd like to see some backup for this assertion. Historically, BSD
(up to 4.4) used to have
mt block device, rewinding
nmt block device, non-rewinding
rmt character device, rewinding
nrmt character device, non-rewinding
which leaves little room to doubt.
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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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