From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 21:09:03 -0500
Subject: [TUHS] why does tar have the tape device hard coded into it and
 why is it mt1 instead of mt0
Message-ID: <201512120209.tBC2930f007838@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>


> I have no memory of why Ken used mt1 not mt0.   Doug may know.

I don't know either. Come to think of it, I can't remember ever
using tar without option -f. Direct machine-to-machine trasfer,
e.g. by uucp, took a lot of business away from magtape soon
after tar was introduced. Incidentally, I think tar was written
by Chuck Haley or Greg Chesson, not Ken.

Doug