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Re: Tape drive


Hi,

As mentioned recently on this list, you'll need to find nttar.zip (look with
archie for your favorite ftp server). The cygwin32 tar doesn't handle tape
drives. nttar.zip is a port of GNU tar using the NT Tape API. I wonder why
this isn't included in the standard distribution.

nttar.zip contains a README which tells you how tapes are called.

Kris
-----Original Message-----
From: sainfeld@sutmyn.com <sainfeld@sutmyn.com>
To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
Date: 20 February 1998 09:40
Subject: Tape drive


>Hi
>I am trying to use my hp dat drive with gnu-win32 in order to read tar
files.
>How are devices addressed in this case ?
>if I do a dd if=? of=/mydir/tarfile what is the name of the device?
>Thank you for guiding the clueless... :)
>Jean-Pierre Sainfeld
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