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Why not use cpio to do it?
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From: Ken Arck <ah6le@(protected)>
To: valhalla-list@(protected)
Sent: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:36:23 -0700
Subject: Treating a tape drive as a "regular" drive?
> Hi everyone.
>
> Is there a way to treat a tape drive (using ftape or ztape) as a regular
> drive? I've tried to mount it but get the error "not a block device".
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> I normally use tar to do this, but there are times I'd prefer to simply
> copy a few files to the tape.
>
> Ken
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