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Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/tcopy/tcopy.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/tcopy/tcopy.1 | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/tcopy/tcopy.1 b/usr.bin/tcopy/tcopy.1 index 1794336..d4f4865 100644 --- a/usr.bin/tcopy/tcopy.1 +++ b/usr.bin/tcopy/tcopy.1 @@ -89,17 +89,19 @@ The command appeared in .Bx 4.3 . .Sh BUGS +.Bl -item +.It Writting an image of a tape to a file does not preserve much more than the raw data. Block size(s) and tape EOF marks are lost which would otherwise be preserved in a tape-to-tape copy. - +.It EOD is determined by two sequential EOF marks with no data between. There are old systems which typically wrote three EOF's between tape files. .Xr tcopy 1 will erroneously stop copying early in this case. - +.It When using the copy/verify option \-c .Xr tcopy 1 does not rewind the tapes prior to start. @@ -107,3 +109,4 @@ A rewind is performed after writing prior to the verification stage. If one doesn't start at BOT then the comparison may not be of the intended data. +.El |
