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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: File System on a tape
To: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis)
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> Also, you can't *run* a system off of a tar image (whereas you
> *could* mount a tape filesystem and execute whatever is on the
> tape!)

Uh... I would have to insist on copying the entire image into core
for that one.  8-).

1:	"What's your tape drive doing?"
2:	"Paging from an executable image..."


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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