From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dds@aueb.gr (Diomidis Spinellis)
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 22:17:13 +0200
Subject: [TUHS] why does tar have the tape device hard coded into it and
 why is it mt1 instead of mt0
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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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