Accessing the ctc on a 3B2/400 from a program ?

[Eric Kozowski]

In article <744 at ambush.UUCP>, storm at ambush.UUCP (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> 
> We have to port a program to backup large files (and disks) on the
> 23 Mbyte cartridge tape on the 3b2/400.
> 
> There is no problems in moving the code (isn't C+UNIX wonderful),
> but we cannot get any good performance out of the tape drive, because
> we cannot make it stream.

Try using the ctccpio command, and/or the savecpio command with the -C ctccpio
option.  If you need more info send me e-mail.


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