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Date:      Mon, 8 May 2000 12:10:50 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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>
In-Reply-To: <200005080023.SAA74329@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Sun, May 07, 2000 at 06:23:45PM -0600
References:  <200005080002.RAA12447@mass.cdrom.com> <200005080023.SAA74329@harmony.village.org>

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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)


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