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From: jimd@dutton2.it.siu.edu (Jim Dutton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Tape drive suggestions???
Date: 14 Jul 1996 07:39:49 GMT
Organization: Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
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In article <4s7vvp$n33@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
	j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:

>Yep.  The `ft' device nodes aren't normal tape devices, the only
>program that can handle them is ft(8).


Joys and more joys. Well, I inherited the machine with the Colorado
Jumbo, so I need to use it. If I had my druthers, it would have been
a SCSI drive when purchased. Oh well.

BTW - the MANual page for FT says nothing about the "-r" parameter.
Is that for 'recursive' ?