How to put several files on 1 tape

Doug Gwyn gwyn at brl-smoke.ARPA
Sat Jul 9 15:01:19 AEST 1988


In article <755 at leah.Albany.Edu> rds95 at leah.Albany.Edu (Robert Seals) writes:
>I want to put several files on a tape, each separated with file marks.

Use the non-rewinding minor device for all but the last file.
E.g.	dd if=file1 of=/dev/rmt12 bs=2k
	dd if=file2 of=/dev/rmt12 bs=2k
...	dd if=fileN of=/dev/rmt8 bs=2k
The exact names for the device depend on your system.



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