From: dds@aueb.gr (Diomidis Spinellis)
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 22:17:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <566C80C9.2000300@aueb.gr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201512121717.tBCHHm5W064050@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>
Interesting! Chuck Haley is also listed as the author of tar in "Life
with Unix" p. 31 (Libes and Resler, Prentice Hall, 1989). I wonder
where that piece of misinformation came from and what other errors are
in the book.
Anyway, I corrected tar's authorship in the Unix history Git repo
https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-make/commit/d4d153afaa1b0e27deb678db40d7e3879d1a4e3d
Diomidis
On 12/12/2015 19:17, Doug McIlroy wrote:
> Forget that I said, "I think that tar was written by Chuck Haley or Greg Chesson".
> Ken confirms that he wrote it, for dectape.
>
> Doug
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-12 17:17 [TUHS] TUHS] " Doug McIlroy
2015-12-12 20:17 ` Diomidis Spinellis [this message]
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2015-12-13 1:41 [TUHS] " Norman Wilson
2015-12-13 3:04 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
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
2015-12-12 20:57 ` John Cowan
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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