From: "Tobias Besch" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: How: Select tape device for GNU tar for MSDOS? Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:06:04 +0100 Organization: Dr. Staedtler GmbH Lines: 11 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.89.99.3 X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1045476365 44362365 217.89.99.3 (16 [86573]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com I have downloaded the latest version of GNU tar for MSDOS (tar-1.12.msdos.exe). On my Windows 2000 PC I try to read a tar tape from my SCSI DAT streamer. The problem: How do I have to specify the tape device after the -f command line argument? Regards, Tobias from Nuremberg (Germany)