Efficient tape I/O with 386/ix; How??

[John Plocher]

In article <317 at focsys.UUCP> larry at focsys.UUCP (Larry Williamson) writes:
>Streaming tape I/O with 386/ix seems to be rather slow.
>
>	find . -print | cpio -ovc >/dev/rmt0
>
>Microport 286 SV/AT has a nice little utility called strm that

Try (on 386 unix only)

	find . -print | cpio -ovcB | dd of=/dev/rmt0 bs=500k
		or
	find . -print | cpio -ovcBC500000  > /dev/rmt0

The latter command is undocumented and may not work <std_declaimer.h>
syntax is -B		Use large block size
	  -Cbuffersize	Use an output buffer of buffersize

  -John Plocher