Hello John!

04 Nov 99 20:59, John Thompson wrote to Francois Thunus:

 JT> "tar" is available for all the platforms you mention (DOS, OS/2,
 JT> NT and linux) but I am not sure of appropriate tape drive support
 JT> under DOS or NT.   In OS/2 you can use the "gtak/gtar" package
 JT> with an SCSI tape unit and the tapes will be fullt readable under
 JT> linux.

that 'll be enough, thank you :-)

 JT> In linux itself tape drive support (SCSI, IDE, floppy-
 JT> based) comes with the kernel sources; you just have to configure
 JT> it in when you compile a kernel.  Best of all, "tar" is free and
 JT> quite versatile, but it is not the easiest program to learn to
 JT> use.

I know tar. I just wasn't aware that therte was a tar support for scsi tapes
under os/2. Now that I know it, there is no longer any problem. I have been
doing tar/gzip backup of unix systems for tha past ten years at least. I'll
hunt the os/2 version. thanks a bunch.


                             -= Francois =-

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