From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 18:13:55 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] why does tar have the tape device hard coded into it and why is it mt1 instead of mt0 In-Reply-To: <566B5397.1060100@gmail.com> References: <566B4DD0.6070700@gmail.com> <566B5397.1060100@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20151211231355.GH30075@mercury.ccil.org> Will Senn scripsit: > Thanks, that'll teach me to read the man pages more carefully even > when the command is familiar in its modern form. Note that if -f is not given, modern tars still default to the tape drive, /dev/st0 on Linux or /dev/sa0 on *BSD. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org Barry thirteen gules and argent on a canton azure fifty mullets of five points of the second, six, five, six, five, six, five, six, five, and six. --blazoning the U.S. flag