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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Floppy tape support?
Date: 9 Jul 1996 17:12:21 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <4rs13k$qdd@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, JSB 007 <jsb007@aol.com> wrote:
>     Has there been any progress lately on fixing 'ft' or porting Linux's
>'ftape' to FreeBSD?  
>     I know QIC 80 tapes are a poor backup choice but thousands of us have
>them already and would like to use them.  

The URL of an alpha version of a new ft driver was posted on one of
the mailing lists a few days ago. You should be abe to find it if you
search through the list archives.

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/