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From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Subject: [TUHS] why does tar have the tape device hard coded into it and why is it mt1 instead of mt0
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 14:44:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22F1828F-F9D6-4AEA-850F-E14FF919B114@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2PexoEe=zuCYZm9Xi_ttLbATzm0XUiaCuY2migPd0FgBw@mail.gmail.com>


On Dec 12, 2015, at 12:13 PM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> tjt rewrote dump(1) on RTU to use AST's and may have hacked dd too (I've lost that version I fear).  In the mid, 80's I rewrote ddd to use threads once kernel support for threading became available and I still use that version today when I mess with tapes (which I do less and less, but have been known to do when trying to recover old tapes).

Anyone recall when pump came into play?  What that a Plan9 thing?, or did it originate in Research UNIX.
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-12 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-12  2:09 Doug McIlroy
2015-12-12 18:54 ` Mary Ann Horton
2015-12-12 19:58   ` Armando Stettner
2015-12-12 20:13   ` Clem Cole
2015-12-12 22:44     ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2015-12-12 20:57   ` John Cowan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-12-13  1:41 Norman Wilson
2015-12-13  3:04 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2015-12-12 17:17 [TUHS] TUHS] " Doug McIlroy
2015-12-12 20:17 ` [TUHS] " Diomidis Spinellis
2015-12-11 22:27 Will Senn
2015-12-11 22:31 ` Clem Cole
2015-12-11 22:52   ` Will Senn
2015-12-11 23:13     ` John Cowan
2015-12-12  0:26       ` Random832

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