Gene Heskett wrote: > On Friday 20 September 2002 13:34, Neil wrote: > >>Does it really take long for tapetype to finish? I executed it and >>still got no generated text after 15 mins. But I was seeing an >>incrementing file(s). >> > On big, slow drives, it might take over a day to run.
Notice that the patched tapetype program I posted last week on this list, gives you an estimate of the total run time after just a minute or so. (And it detects if your tape drive has hardware compression on, a frequent mistake!) -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 40.51.40 Interleuvenlaan 15 H, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 40.49.61 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * ***********************************************************************
