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Date:      Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:27:12 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Jesse Guardiani <jesse@wingnet.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: tcopy tape to tape WAY too slow
Message-ID:  <20040330202711.GF19463@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <200403301300.16163.jesse@wingnet.net>
References:  <c4c00b$4ug$1@sea.gmane.org> <20040330153932.GE19463@dan.emsphone.com> <200403301300.16163.jesse@wingnet.net>

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In the last episode (Mar 30), Jesse Guardiani said:
> On Tuesday 30 March 2004 10:39, you wrote:
> > If you have multiple files or unknown blocksizes, the cptp command
> > from the MAG package at http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/mag.html will
> > preserve filemark and blocksize info through pipes, so you could do
> > a cptp | cptp pipe.
> 
> That looks promising. Do you have special build instructions for this
> package under FreeBSD 4.x?
> 
> I'm getting the following error on 'gmake' or 'make':
> 
> gcc -ansi -DUNIX -O -s -c tperr.c
> tperr.c:18: initializer element is not constant
> *** Error code 1

Bug in the program (stderr cannot be used to initialize static
variables).  Replace line 18 with

#define tperr stderr

and it'll build.  It looks like you may also want to edit tploc.h, line
49, and replace those two "8"'s with "%d"'s.  Then something like 
"cptp -m 0 of=- | cptp -m 1 if=-" should copy from rmt0 to rmt1 with a
little bit of pipe buffering inbetween.  Adding "team" or "buffer"
(both in ports/misc) inbetween will add even more buffering.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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