Re: [PARPORT] /dev/npt0 vs /dev/pt0 ?


Ian Soboroff (ian@cs.umbc.edu)
17 Feb 2000 08:52:29 -0500


Barnet Wagman <wagman@enteract.com> writes:

> Thanks, this helps a lot.
>
> currently you won't be able to append to an archive.  to skip
> over an archive and write another one, use 'tar tf /dev/npt0
> >/dev/null' and then 'tar cf /dev/npt0 ...'
>
> But what is the difference between /dev/pt0 and /dev/npt0 ?
> Is npt0 the no-rewind version?

yes.
ian

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