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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!nemeton.com.au!giles From: giles@nemeton.com.au (Giles Lean) Subject: Re: dump on a DAT tape .. Organization: Nemeton Pty. Ltd. Message-ID: <Dro82E.AJn@nemeton.com.au> References: <4mfon3$gib@news.simplex.nl> <4miicv$sb9@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4nd0kh$1bm@anorak.coverform.lan> <4nlka4$1l5@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 21:08:37 GMT Lines: 20 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote: >(Don't tell me you won't be able to find another machine using UFS >around. :) I've never been successful reloading dump tapes on foreign systems. Not to say it can't be done, but the combinations I've tried have certainly failed. Dump is usually considered "non portable". Regards, Giles -- -- Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> +61 3 9480 2118 PGP Key fingerprint = 9F FB 28 37 81 F2 AC F3 8A B0 37 E5 73 CF 39 E7