seek on raw magtape

[Chris Torek]

Of course, if you wanted to kludge up your Unix kernel, you could
make the block tape device use large interrecord gaps, and then you
could even make a file system on tape.  (Did this once work?  It
does not in 4.[23]BSD.)
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