Re: /dev/f1

2000-09-21 Thread Michael Elizabeth Chastain
Hi Daniel, > tar -cvf /dev/f1 . Take a look at the line before it: tar: tar -cvf /dev/f1 . This goal has been in the net/*/Makefile files a very long time. I see it in linux-0.99.1.tar! My guess is that the original author/user of this little goal liked to back up the

Re: /dev/f1

2000-09-19 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Daniel Lange wrote: > Hi all, > I don't know how relevant to this list my question is, as I'm a quite > new subscriber, but I was perusing the linux kernel (2.2.16) Makefiles and > ran into this in /usr/src/linux/net/ethernet/Makefile: > >tar -cvf /dev/f1 . > I think