On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:20:52PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: >>> I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately >>> /dev/rmt0 for *YEARS*, not just on Linux but on just about every >>> platform, if -f is not given? >> No. > You cite nothing to back that up, and everything I can see shows that you're > incorrect. Let's look around a bit: > > * GNU Tar from Debian 1.1, version 1.11.8-5, dated Aug 25 1996:
You're saying that tar has defaulted to /dev/rmt0 for years, which in common English indicates that it still does. What it defaulted to at some earlier point (no less than ten years in the past!) is something entirely different. > * GNU tar, present version: compile-time default, honors $TAPE > "usually it is standard output or some physical tape drive" ...which is far from "defaulting to /dev/rmt0" (the default, barring user intervention, is surely stdout), which means that no, tar does not default to /dev/rmt0 on "about every platform". /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
