Mike Spenard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After tar has finished writing to the tape device is there > a way to see how large the finished tar on tape is? > > Also, is there a way to monitor the transfer rate to the > tape device?
dd gives you both of these pieces of information. just pipe tar through dd instead of pointing tar directly to the tape device -- A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You can not fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked. -- Danny Hillis
