enami tsugutomo <enami@sm.sony.co.jp>  wrote:
 > Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org> writes:
 > 
 > >   DUMP: DUMP IS DONE
 > > Changing volumes on pipe input?
 > > abort? [yn] n
 > 
 > I could reproduce this and the patch made the restore(8) to warn and
 > ignore missing files.
 > 
 > enami@red-pepper% restore -if - < ../hoge.dump
 > restore > add *
 > restore > extract
 > Changing volumes on pipe input?
 > abort? [yn] y
 > dump core? [yn] y
 > Abort trap (core dumped)
 > enami@red-pepper% rm -rf *
 > enami@red-pepper% /i/netbsd/src/sbin/restore/obj.i386/restore -if - <../hoge.dump 
 > restore > add *
 > restore > extrat
 > extrat: unknown command; type ? for help
 > restore > extract
 > ./emacs-21.0.90/etc/DOC: not found on tape
 > ./emacs-21.0.90/etc/DOC-21.0.90.1: not found on tape
 > set owner/mode for '.'? [yn] y
 > restore > quit
 > enami@red-pepper% 


cool.  That looks way better.

So are you going to commit or shall I send-pr?