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From: andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Andrew webster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Re: Barebones TI 99 for $10:  is that a good deal?
Date: 7 Sep 92 18:24:36 GMT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #2, Edmonton, AB, Canada

koen@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Koen Holtman) writes:

- In article <0a1kqB3w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (A
- >Did I tell you guys about the time I went into a thrift shop and found a 
- >99/4A console that had a wire sticking out of it? Well there was a tag at 
- >the end of it that said "video input/sync needed"!! Well, I said to 
-  [...]
- >chips! No added parts! Just to connections to on the 9918. Heck! 
-  [...]
- 
- But this IS a useful modification. If you hook up a video source, 
- and set a bit in VDP register 0 (external video enable), colour 
- 0 will be replaced by the video image!
- 
- Note: I've never actually seen this done, only read about it. I don't
- know what kind of video signal should be used.
- 
- 
- >Andrew webster              andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 
- 
- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
- Koen Holtman                  TUE computing science     "Dat zieje wel"
- koen@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl    (Ax:*p)==(*p&p!=&x)         --Multatuli

__________________________________________________________________________

The thing is that a sync generator is needed to do this. That costs big 
bucks. And the end results would be a BAD picture cause of the low res of 
the 9918a video chip. But I have the TIM board from OPA in Toronto which 
uses the Yamaha 9958 video chip (it is upwardly compatible to the 9918, 
but not directly) and if the software was available (too bad its not, 
Gary Bowser!) the TIM is ready for direct video input and the results 
would be great. 
So, can someone please write the software to capture an external video 
signal!! Oh! and how about the software to use a scanner!!
And the software to use "flow control" with the MNP5 v.42bis etc!!!
And the software to convert form Myart/Yapp back to GIF!!(on the 4/A)
And the software to converert .MOD files to f/x, EH Barry!!!
Enough for today???
Sorry about that Koen, I started dreaming!

Andrew webster              andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: cs902117@ariel.yorku.ca (TONY D'ALFONSO)
Subject: How much memory can Geneve access? (Was Re: FORTRAN / P-Code)
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 15:04:17 GMT


Thom, I am not sure about that one but I can tell you that you can buy the
GENMOD with some 0k wait states from Bud Mills, and the highest memory listed
was I think 2.5 Megs.  I believe that the Geneve can handle 8-16 Megs (not
sure, no one has ever tried it!), but can't say as I don't know anyone who
has tried it!
 
   ____
    / o n y.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Keith Rice)
Subject: TI 99/4A video pinout needed
Organization: University of North Texas
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 06:35:45 GMT

I recently obtained a TI-99/4A and need the pinout diagram for the video
output.  I am unable to find an adapter and am going to build my own if
I get the info.

Thanks.

--
D. Keith Rice -- University of North Texas -- drice@ponder.csci.unt.edu
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From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Re: How do you connect Speech Synth to PC?
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:33:14 GMT
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia

In article <1992Sep8.112346.432@altair.selu.edu>, tmis1692@altair.selu.edu writes:
>I'm not sure if this is a FAQ but, I want to use my TI 99/4A Speech processor
>on my PC clone (286 w/DOS 5.0) via com port.  (how) Can it be done?
>Please reply directly to TMIS1692@selu.edu (internet)
>Thanks, Kevin
>

There was a similar question here a while back about the thermal printer.
The speech synthesizer is communicating with the 99/4A main console through
the main bus, not through some kind of a serial or parallel or IEEE or any
other type of standard or semi-standard port.  Connecting it to a PC might be
possible but is very complicated; it might be easier to get a speech chip
(which is a little dedicated computer in itself) and building an interface
to the PC from scratch...
From: ti6hk@ap04.rz.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien - 3358 )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: TI-99/4A
Date: 9 Sep 92 07:48:07 GMT
Organization: none
Originator: ti6hk@ap04.cip3a.tu-harburg.de

Hello Andrew!

The 80 column card is from Mechatronic with 192 KByte and Mouse-Port (a little
bit difficult to access). The Size is approximately 4"x10". I hooked this card
in the clearance between motherboard and the upper case. The card uses a Yamaha
9938. The installation is via the TMS9929 socket (PAL-Version of TMS9918) and
the I/O port. 

The GRAM-cards I buyed in Germany from Peter Kleinschmidt. They were developed
from Heiner Martin 1986 as I remember. They simulate GROM/GRAM 64 KByte at 98xx
with xx= 0,4,8,c,....38,3c and ROM/RAM at >6000 - >7FFF. So every cartridge is
loadable. To get access of both cards I modified the second card to avoid a bus-crash at adresses >6000 - >7FFF. As you can see there is only one cartridge 
loadable with ROM/RAM because one card can only hold one ROM/RAM. This limits
the capabilities a little bit. It is also possible to modify the GPL-OS. But 
this shouldn't be done because the drivers are much stronger than the GROMS
which may damage. (But I use this cards in this way without any problems)

I thought in the US exist a GRAM card which is nearly the same (was it for 
GRAM-cracker files ??? I think I have one, only the first two words of the file
are swaped). 

Henry



Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: cs902117@ariel.yorku.ca (TONY D'ALFONSO)
Subject: MDOS 1.20 and Windows 9640
Followup-To: 9640News@delphi.com
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 01:58:11 GMT

I recently downloaded v 1.20 of MDOS from the anonymous ftp site and the
first program I tried with it was Windows 9640.  I noticed a bug that didn't
appear with MDOS 1.14f, a bug in the new version of MDOS.  It occurs when I
have the main menu on the screen.  The Windows don't clear off the screen
like they do with v1.14f.  I haven't tried the new HD version though...
 
The next program I will try is MDOS TPA...  Wish me luck!
 
    ____
     / o n y.

Loading.......................................................................

So far so good...  Tried the basic features and it looks ok...
From: ti6hk@ap04.rz.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien - 3358 )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: TI-99/4A
Date: 7 Sep 92 09:50:52 GMT
Organization: none
Originator: ti6hk@ap04.cip3a.tu-harburg.de

Hello!
 
Something over my system...
 
        o  TI 99/4A with on board 32 KByte static RAM 16 bit  wide
           and a built in (a lot of work) 80 character card with a
           connected Mouse
 
        o 2 GRAM cards, each with 512 KByte
 
        o p-code but only PASCAL
 
        o 2 RS232 cards 
        
        o Triple-Tech with speechsynthesizer hooked on
 
        o Myarc  Harddiskcontroller  with  2 Harddisks in the back
          The second I need for Backup's. This take only 1h30  for
          30 MByte and not 12h with Floppydisks!
 
        
I don't know if You imagine that a console in Germany yields $700 1983??
Or that the p-code cost the same, XBasic $280??? Don't forget the time where I
buyed my system. This justify the price I payed for it. The $7000 is the sum
I payed over years. Today is everything much cheaper. If I would have the money
now I would look for a sun...(I know some money is missing).
I think this is the reason why in Germany only some people exists using TI.
I could write a book about the circumstances getting a Harddiskcontroller from
the US! I don't know the price in the US, I buyed it via the Netherlands. I
payed for it 600.- DM (or $400) 1989. 
In the whole sum there is nothing periphal included, no monitor, no printer 
only one original floppy which I trashed. The complete system over all
including every periphal hit $10000. And that's the reason why I won't give up
my TI!!! He was to expensive to sold or to trash! 

Henry


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                  Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg
                  Martin-Leuschel-Ring 16
                  2100 Hamburg 90
 
Telephone      :  040 / 7718-3358   
Fax            :  n.a.              
 
e-mail         :  koplien@rztsun.tu-harburg.dbp.de
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From: tmis1692@altair.selu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: How do you connect Speech Synth to PC?
Date: 8 Sep 92 11:23:46 -0600
Keywords: Speech Synth, PC
Distribution: world
Organization: Southeastern Louisiana University

I'm not sure if this is a FAQ but, I want to use my TI 99/4A Speech processor
on my PC clone (286 w/DOS 5.0) via com port.  (how) Can it be done?
Please reply directly to TMIS1692@selu.edu (internet)
Thanks, Kevin
From: andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Andrew webster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Re: FORTRAN / P-Code
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 92 14:11:48 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #2, Edmonton, AB, Canada

ti6hk@ap04.rz.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien - 3358 ) writes:

- Hi TI-group!
- 
- You lucky guys you are. My TI99/4A is really old one and full stroked. From 
- little SRAM-extensions on the motherboard for no wait-states up to 1 M-Byte
- GRAM...  Everything concerning the Hardware was done, except buying a lot of
- moduls. The price in Germany over all is nearly 10.000.- DM (German Marks) Th
- means $7000. This is really expensive but depends on what you want.
- 
- Has anybody the FORTRAN-Files for the P-Code-Card? That's the only thing I mi
- 
- Thanks in advance
- Henry
- 
- 
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- mail-address   :  Dipl.-Inform. Henry Koplien
-                   Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg
-                   Martin-Leuschel-Ring 16
-                   2100 Hamburg 90
-  
- Telephone      :  040 / 7718-3358   
- Fax            :  n.a.              
-  
- e-mail         :  koplien@rztsun.tu-harburg.dbp.de
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

__________________________________________________________________________
Hmmmmm.. Sounds like you you hackerers in that part of the world have it 
all over us in the west, when it comes to hardware.
Can you give us a detailed description of your 99/4A system and so on...
It would make for very interesting reading.
Thanks....
$7000.00!!!!!   Boy, just think of the system I "could" have for that 
price!!!!!!!!

Andrew webster              andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
From: andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Andrew webster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Re: TI-99/4A
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 20:23:27 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

ti6hk@ap04.rz.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien - 3358 ) writes:

- Hallo Anrew!
- 
- Are you shure to mean Yamaha 9958? Is it an upgrade of the Yamaha 9938? This
- Chip is also able to work "superimposed". That's what my manual say. But I
- 
- Henry
- 

__________________________________________________________________________

Yes 9958. The 9958 has no provisions for a mouse.
The board (80 column card) was developed by Gary Bowser of OPA in Toronto 
Canada. It is a small 4"x3" board that plugs into the 9918a video socket.
It is interfaced with a custom chip and has the full 192k vram on board.
It also comes with a new operating system which is 1"x2" board that 
replaced Grom 0 & 1. It is a 16k op sys. w/manager. Can load image, 
object, basic.
The video (9958) is of couse transparent to the system as it is not 
addressed. (unlike the Dijit board) 
The cost of these items are $179.00Canadian.
Cheap really for the quality you get.
talk to you again Henry....

Andrew webster              andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti,comp.sys.ti.geneve
From: u001@csx.cciw.ca (Clint Pulley)
Subject: New version of MDOS for 9640/Geneve available on cs910.cciw.ca
Organization: Canada Centre for Inland Waters
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 11:56:57 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.ti
Summary: MDOS development

The MDOS development team has released interim versions of MDOS and ABASIC for
testing. Files are available by anonymous ftp from cs910.cciw.ca in directory
/pub/u001. The files are:

abs300_ark	Interim ABASIC v3.00 for 9640/Geneve
hds120_ark	Interim hard drive MDOS v1.20 for 9640/Geneve
mds120_ark	Interim floppy only MDOS v1.20 for 9640/Geneve

Please send bug reports concerning the new versions of MDOS and ABASIC to
Beery Miller <9640news@delphi.com> and/or Clint Pulley <u001@csx.cciw.ca>.

Clint
-- 
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National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada 
Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Burlington, Ontario
Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. -James Dewar
From: ti6hk@ap04.rz.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien - 3358 )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: TI-99/4A
Date: 8 Sep 92 08:11:00 GMT
Organization: none
Originator: ti6hk@ap04.cip3a.tu-harburg.de

Hallo Anrew!

Are you shure to mean Yamaha 9958? Is it an upgrade of the Yamaha 9938? This
Chip is also able to work "superimposed". That's what my manual say. But I
also know anybody who have done this before!

I don't know how the GENEVE access RAM. The only thing I know is the direct 
adressable space of a TMS9995 is 64 KByte because I build a 13 (that's really
odd!) parallel computer on TMS9995-base. 

I use my "Meg-Byte" for moduls and indirect adressable memoryspace. For instance
saving the videoscreen of the 9938. This needs nearly 128 KByte in the hires-
mode. I also modified the GRAM-Files of the cartridges that E/A resides on base
>9804, TI-Writer on >9808 and Multiplan on >980C. All moduls are autoloaded on
power-up from the harddisk.
I also make speechanalysis with the TI, therefore I need a lot of memory 
recording the incoming data. (8 KBytes per second)

Henry

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: cs902117@ariel.yorku.ca (TONY D'ALFONSO)
Subject: Re: FORTRAN / P-Code
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 21:06:41 GMT

You said you added on your 99/4A system that it cost you $7000?  (10000 DM)

What the heck would you have in such a system (assuming it exists! :-) )?
 
    ____
     / o n y.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
Subject: Re: FORTRAN / P-Code
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 13:28:19 GMT

Did he say 1 megabyte GRAM?  Wow... what do you use it for?

BTW, how much memory can a Geneve access?

Thom
From: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: for Alberto Alejandro
Date: 15 Sep 92 19:09:18 GMT
Reply-To: cohen@GOMEZ.phys.virginia.edu
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Virginia

Alberto-

I have received a message from you and tried to reply.  I am not sure there
is e-mail from my end to yours (probably works ok the other way, though).
Please let me know what you are are able to receive from me via e-mail.

Thanks.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: jhhardy@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (J. Hardy)
Subject: TIPPC keyboard wanted
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 03:31:58 GMT

well, after ten yr of flawless service my TIPPC i having itss firsst
problems.  This lat move across the country apparently was too much for
the keyboard.  Several keys are malfunctioning.  Does anyone out there
have a keyboard for sale.  Being a poor grad sstudent I'm not above taking
advantage of a real cheap price if you feel generous.  :)

thanx


jim hardy
jhhardy@silver.ucs.indiana.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
From: leavitt@cheshire.oxy.edu (Thomas VanNess Leavitt)
Subject: Speech Synth forslae!  Make offer...
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 13:26:15 GMT

Yo, all... my dad has two spare Speech synths, and I got one tossed in with
this genuine steel box mint condition console with, get this... a TEXNET
folder.  Also, got a ton of cartridges, a nice multi-voltage ac adapter,
manuals for all the cartridges, etc.  Music maker, and Chisholm 
Trail (a game that never managed to cross our console before)... lots of
neat stuff.  Dual cassette adapter cable"

Anyway, I thought I should share the wealth.

Jerry at TexComp offered my dad $45 for one of his spares last year, so that
should start the bidding.

Thom

P.S.  Am now proud owner of $15 Atari 2600 with 9 games... a 99/4A with
a cartridge that really takes advantage of the system is far better, even
without a hard drive adapter... comparable games are far better on the TI.

The 2600 is still a good mover on the swap market... games move well for
$2 apiece... so there is a market for this level of machine.  $10 for a
console, hook it up to your T.V., get some cartridges, and you've got
a better machine that the Atari.

Not to mention far more potential.
From: koen@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Koen Holtman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Re: Barebones TI 99 for $10:  is that a good deal?
Date: 7 Sep 92 12:24:54 GMT
Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.

In article <0a1kqB3w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Andrew webster) writes:
>Did I tell you guys about the time I went into a thrift shop and found a 
>99/4A console that had a wire sticking out of it? Well there was a tag at 
>the end of it that said "video input/sync needed"!! Well, I said to 
 [...]
>chips! No added parts! Just to connections to on the 9918. Heck! 
 [...]

But this IS a useful modification. If you hook up a video source, 
and set a bit in VDP register 0 (external video enable), colour 
0 will be replaced by the video image!

Note: I've never actually seen this done, only read about it. I don't
know what kind of video signal should be used.


>Andrew webster              andy-w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Koen Holtman                  TUE computing science     "Dat zieje wel"
koen@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl    (Ax:*p)==(*p&p!=&x)         --Multatuli
From: ti6hk@ap04.rz.tu-harburg.de (Henry Koplien - 3358 )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ti
Subject: Mistakes..
Date: 7 Sep 92 09:55:46 GMT
Organization: none
Originator: ti6hk@ap04.cip3a.tu-harburg.de

Hello....

I read my sended article, sorry something is wrong for instance peripheral..

Henry
From: aj639@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: YP clnt calls
Date: 8 Sep 1992 18:23:49 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Reply-To: aj639@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Cox)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu


Could someone demonstrate how to do one of the YP clnt calls?  Such as
yp_get_default_domain()?  Maybe just get the domain and print it to the
screen.  I have tried this and I keep getting core dumps.  Any help
would be appreciated.

Mike
coxmd@largo.acq.osd.mil  (If possible, mail to this address)
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Okay, look for AmoNER Disk #4 on:
ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (128.174.5.59) in /amiga/amoner
nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) in /pub/amiga/programming/amos
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.misc:4159 comp.lang.c:13429
From: sxn@eng.sun.com (Steve Nahm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: strcpy bug on SUNs
Date: 10 Sep 92 04:23:58 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: rand
Summary: Bug ID
Keywords: strcpy, mmap, core dump

Phing Vo writes:

>Below is a bug with strcpy() on SUN4 that Glenn Fowler and I came across
>recently. It has to do with strcpy(to,from) reading beyond the last
>byte of "from" when it is not aligned but "to" is aligned.

The bug ID for this bug is 1040829, in case anyone tries to talk to Sun about
it.



--
Steve Nahm                              sxn@sun.COM or sun!sxn
Sun RPC Project Lead
From: tda10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Tim Auckland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: tmp doesn't seem to be clearing. . .
Keywords: tmp files hvtmp
Date: 15 Sep 92 21:57:40 GMT
Organization: U of Cambridge, England

In article <1992Sep15.042444.3062@midway.uchicago.edu>, popelka@odysseus.uchicago.edu (Glenn Popelka) writes:
|>  We just installed 4.1.2 on a few machines, and after noticing a large amount of
|> ..getwd files in /tmp, found that the sticky bit is turned on by default for the
|> /tmp directory. We turned it off.

The sticky bit on /tmp is there to try to maintain an attempt at
security by preventing users from deleting other users' files.  It might
help keep things clean if a user can just "rm -r /tmp/" but I don't
think I'd like users doing that on my system.

It should also be set on /var/tmp, but I think SunOS forgets that one by
default.

Tim.
From: giff@world.East.Sun.COM (Wayne Giff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Capital Area SLUG Meeting (in Northern VA)
Date: 11 Sep 1992 18:48:37 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: giff@world.East.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: world.east.sun.com
Keywords: User Group slug

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

			CAPITAL AREA SUN LOCAL USER'S GROUP
			===================================

When:	Monday, September 14, 1992
	7:00pm

Where:	Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
	2650 Park Tower Drive
	Vienna, VA 22180
	703-204-4100
	
	Seminar Room
	1st Floor
	Free Parking in Garage

Agenda
------

7:00 - 7:10	Introduction - Refreshments

7:15 - 7:45	Steve Fritzinger, Sun Systems Engineer
		Presentation on Distributed Objects Everywhere (DOE)
		and Distributed Object Management Facility (DOMF)

7:45 - 8:15	ONTOS Incorporated
		Aileen Black, Director of Federal and Southeast Operations
		Sandra Wade, Technical Support Consultant
		Product demo and overview:
		DBDesigner, an interactive visual schema design and 
		browsing tool;
		and Studio, an interactive front-end development tool for
		ONTOS DB.

8:15 - 9:00	Open Forum...question and answer period


For more information, please contact Erin O'Brien at (703) 204-4100.


Directions:

Metro - The office is across the street from the
	Dunn Loring station on the Orange line.


Driving - From 495 take Rte 50 W to Gallows Rd. (Follow signs)
	  Right on Gallows
	  Sun is approx 2 miles up on the right. (bldg sign says TRW)
	  Dunn Loring Metro Station is on the left.
	  (What is a Dunn Loring anyway?)


	
	



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From: karches@utdallas.edu (Tom Karches)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Adding to a TAR tape
Keywords: tar tape
Date: 8 Sep 92 15:47:26 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas

In article <lsloan.715963681@nova> lsloan@nova.gmi.edu (Lance Sloan) writes:
>I am using a Sun SPARCserver 4/490 with an 8mm tape drive on /dev/rst0.
>I can use tar to put files on the tape, but I cannot add files to the tape
>after the initial tar.
>
>For example, I tar several files to the tape and later want to add a file
>to the end of the existing tar file.  The u (update) and r (write) options
>to tar return errors.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
Adding files to existing tar files is only possible on a 9 track tape
drive. The reason is that other tape drives can not accurately position
the write head to the exact spot on the tape where the additional files
would be appended.

I believe the man page for tar will verify this.

Regards,
Tom Karches
karches@utdallas.edu
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