From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 1 11:29:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA05429 for current-outgoing; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 11:29:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA05418 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 11:29:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id UAA20519; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 20:16:21 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) id UAA08166; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 20:10:03 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19970201201002.PV38320@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 20:10:02 +0100 From: andreas@klemm.gtn.com (Andreas Klemm) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: Good name for a dump(8) option? References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.59-PL19 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from "J Wunsch" on Feb 1, 1997 14:45:14 +0100 Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch writes: > Hiya, > > i've implemented an option to dump(8) to bypass all tape length > considerations, and dump straight to the end-of-tape indication, as it > is probably most appropriate for all today's tape drives (due to > compression and/or multiple backups per volume). > > How to name this kid? Right now, i've picked key `e' (``end of > medium'', ``enforce end-of-medium''), lacking a better idea. Are > there any better suggestions that don't conflict with other existing > keys? what about key 'a', which sounds like doing something automatically ?! a - auto-calc tape length by simply detecting end of tape ;-) -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<