From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 7 16:19:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 422C437BB4E for ; Sun, 7 May 2000 16:19:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@mips.inka.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 12oaKy-0006Kb-00; Mon, 8 May 2000 01:19:48 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA56818 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 8 May 2000 00:53:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Undocumented tape devices in pax(1) Date: 8 May 2000 00:53:35 +0200 Message-ID: <8f4s5f$1nfa$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <20000507102848.A35845@dragon.nuxi.com> <200005072156.OAA11982@mass.cdrom.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Smith 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. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message