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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!dove.nist.gov!usenet From: bagwill@kangaroo.ncsl.nist.gov (Robert Bagwill) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware Subject: Re: Tape backup speed FreeBSD v. Linux Date: 2 Nov 1995 14:37:47 GMT Organization: NIST Lines: 7 Message-ID: <47al3r$3ln@dove.nist.gov> References: <1995Oct30.090118.28117@state.systems.sa.gov.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: kangaroo.ncsl.nist.gov X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.2 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:8105 comp.os.linux.hardware:20006 There's a nice little program called "buffer" by Lee McLoughlin <L.McLoughlin@doc.ic.ac.uk> that uses SYSV shared memory to reblock data. My QIC tape streams using it. -- Bob Bagwill <rbagwill@nist.gov>