Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 17:32:36 -0500 (CDT)
From: Aaron Ucko <UCKO AT VAX1 DOT ROCKHURST DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: tape backup question
To: dashiell AT nadc DOT nadc DOT navy DOT mil
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO

>I have a colorado tape drive and would be interested to know if any of
>the gnuish tools can talk to that tape drive for backup purposes like maybe
>cpio or tar.
AFAIK, no.  However, I believe PD-Tar (or some similarly named program)
can do this sort of thing--check simtel for tar317us.zip (or is it 318 now?)
The GNU tools (and hence out of laziness the GNUish tools) tend to rely
on the O/S for I/O support; something like Linux has this, but not DOS.

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