From owner-cvs-all Mon May 8 12:10:49 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B1C37B5EA; Mon, 8 May 2000 12:10:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@c01-132.006.popsite.net [216.126.134.132]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA22310; Mon, 8 May 2000 12:10:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA52019; Mon, 8 May 2000 12:10:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 12:10:50 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Warner Losh Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 sa.4 Message-ID: <20000508121050.A51871@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200005080002.RAA12447@mass.cdrom.com> <200005080023.SAA74329@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200005080023.SAA74329@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sun, May 07, 2000 at 06:23:45PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, May 07, 2000 at 06:23:45PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > On the 4.2BSD vax we had back in school, it was /dev/rmt8 and > /dev/nrmt8. R stood for rewind, and has for a very long time. The > SunOS 3.5 machine behaved exactly the same way. R is raw. A non-N tape device rewinds the tape when the device is closed. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message