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Date:      Thu, 02 Jul 1998 22:12:14 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@surf.IAE.nl>, jkh@time.cdrom.com, Michael Smith <msmith@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Apollo tapes (was: Variant Link implementation, continued) 
Message-ID:  <199807030512.WAA04218@antipodes.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Jul 1998 10:01:16 %2B0930." <19980702100116.F13424@freebie.lemis.com> 

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> On Wednesday,  1 July 1998 at 10:49:55 +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> > In article <list.freebsd.hackers#11724.899262125@time.cdrom.com> you write:
> >>> I have actual working code for this.
> >>> At the moment every variantlink gets replaced by '2.2.6', since that is my
> >>> current OS version.
> >>
> >> That's really cool!  Apollo, here we come! ;-)
> >
> > Just look for the Apollo FAQ and see why I'm chasing this one down.
> > :-D. I just loved my Domain babies.
> >
> > [[ Now If could only read back my old Apollo-tars at 20 blocks = 10Kbyte. :-(
> 
> What's the problem?  I've heard of nightmares with Apollo tapes, and I
> currently have a set of Domain OS 10.4 tapes here which I need to copy
> (Mike, are you listening?).

Yeah.  Do an install from them first, then use rbak/wbak or whatever 
the Apollo FAQ suggests for copying them.  It's been too long since I 
wsa reading that stuff to remember, especially as I never had a chance 
to practice.

-- 
\\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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