Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 13:32:56 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl, pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: [DEVFS] your opinions sought! Message-ID: <9504211832.AA13025@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <9504211744.AA04076@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 21, 95 11:44:18 am
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> > Oh, how I wish for some way to just "pause" the OS sometimes. :-) It's > > sooooo handy and convenient to just add a tape drive by just plugging it in. > > Run INN (just joking, just joking...) # ctlfreebsd pause now ??? :-) Actually, the chief thing I need this for is so that I can connect a tape unit to the far end of my newsfeed. I've got a FreeBSD box under my desk here at MEI that has a serial link to our news server "news.moneng.mei.com", with a 28.8K modem to sol.net. It just sits here and runs uucico all day, taking the compressed packets from news, gzip'ping them, and sending them to news.sol.net. A 28.8K modem link isn't enough these days, even with gzip'ped traffic. I fall about a day behind over the period of a week, and toss about 300MB of news onto tape and hand carry it to news.sol.net. I *gotta* arrange for ISDN... :-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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