Subject: Re: DAT & Utility program
To: None <joe@laffeycomputer.com>
From: Hauke Fath <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/16/1998 01:08:54
At 0:32 Uhr +0100 16.11.1998, Joe Laffey wrote:
>Anyone have any luck hooking up a DAT drive to their NetBSD box? I have an
>older DDS1 WangDAT (SCSI). Is there a chance that this will work or not?

I have made regular backups of an i386 box (NetBSD 1.3.2) to an older Sony
DAT with dump(8); no difficulties there. Also, I have run amanda on mac68k
with a Tandberg TDC4222 2/4G QIC streamer.

>Also, I wrote a nifty little utility in C for NetBSD that allows you to
>scan through multiple text files and replace strings. It's great for web
>work or anything else. It can do recursive directory searches. It's just
>about done if anyone is interested...

How about making a NetBSD package from it?

	hauke


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