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Re: [Wlug] Question about WLUG BBQ

by Josh Huber

Wesley Allen <wallen(a)charter.net> writes: > Did you guys set up WEP? I know it's "encryption-lite" but right > now I've only my wlan setup with mac address locking only because I > can't get wep to work at all. I really recommend setting up IPsec. If you're using Linux, Free S/WAN works well. Personally, it took me a few tries to get things working, but once I did it turned out very well... > I actually had less trouble setting up wireless in linux than in > windows! Yeah, a friend of mine who uses Windows told me how much of a pain in the ass it was to set up wireless...For me it was quite simple (well, except for the ipsec setup) -- Josh Huber

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] How to set "-dpi 100" for X with kdm

by Aaron Haviland

Andy Stewart said: > > HI all, > > When I start my SuSE 8.0 system in run level 3, it comes up in textmode. I > log in and issue the startx command and KDE comes up. In my ~/.xserverrc > file, I have put "-dpi 100" and the X server comes up in 100 dpi mode and I > am a happy camper. > > Now, I think I'd like to have the graphical login from run level 5. kdm comes > up with a nice screen, but the X server is only running at 75 dpi. I cannot > figure out where to put the 100 dpi setting for this situation. It appears > not to read the same files for the xdm/kdm method of starting the X server as > it does when one types startx. > > So, how do I properly setup 100 dpi for kdm/xdm? Perhaps /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc (or wherever your distro puts it)? I don't know if *dms use it, but i'd think they probably would. mine says: #!/bin/sh exec /usr/bin/X11/X -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp -- Aaron Haviland orion [at] tribble [dot] dyndns [dot] org orion [at] parsed [dot] net "Here I stand, foot in hand, talking to my wall. I'm not quite right at all, am I?" -Bowie.

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Question about WLUG BBQ

by Stephen C. Daukas

At 01:04 AM 7/19/2002, Andy wrote: >On Friday 19 July 2002 12:37 am, Bill Smith wrote: > > > Question: If Theo does his lecture on Anti-Spam stuff, how will that be > > done at a BBQ? (of course, one could ask how ANY computer related > > subject, shy of wireless networking, could be done at a BBQ!) [snip] >Last time we had a BBQ, about a dozen people showed up, so something like the >aforementioned might work in that case. If, however, about 30 people showed >up(!), this idea probably wouldn't work so well. I'm not sure if Doug (WLUG >BBQ host) has a 60" projection screen TV that he could connect to his >laptop. >If we asked him, maybe he'd buy one for the occasion. :-) I have a projector, or I should say I have access to one, that I can plug a laptop into. Doug and I were trying to figure where to project and onto what, and we do have some ideas in mind (generated fog, multiple sprinklers, side of house, bed sheets, et al.). In fact, I think we should use the projector regardless of how many attend - it will be easier for all to see. However, I doubt either of us would mention this to his wife, so buying a 60"+ HDTV, for example, is not entirely ruled out! ;-) If there are any unforeseen issues, my place would be backup, and there is high-speed Internet at both locations, so that shouldn't be an issue (But Doug has a pool!). Given the appropriate technology, like building on the wireless stuff we did this week, it shouldn't matter where the meeting is held (distractions like food and drink aside!). Steve

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Question about WLUG BBQ

by Andy Stewart

On Friday 19 July 2002 6:26 am, Wesley Allen wrote: > Andy, > Did you guys set up WEP? I know it's "encryption-lite" but right now > I've only my wlan setup with mac address locking only because I can't > get wep to work at all. HI Wes, Chuck and I mentioned WEP but didn't actually configure it. I tried once at home and botched it. I'll be trying again soon. > > I actually had less trouble setting up wireless in linux than in > windows! I got it working, and at the meeting discovered that I had done it suboptimally. With help from Chuck and the meeting attendees, I was able to get my network configured optimally. Now, as soon as I plug in my wireless card, the network "magically" comes up on its own. Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Question about WLUG BBQ

by Wesley Allen

Hey, one more thing. My pc-card didn't come with a hard-case for storage, which kinda defeats the purpose because I'm not traveling with it if it's not in a protected case! Anyone know where I might pick one up? Wes On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 01:04, Andy Stewart wrote: > On Friday 19 July 2002 12:37 am, Bill Smith wrote: > > > Question: If Theo does his lecture on Anti-Spam stuff, how will that be > > done at a BBQ? (of course, one could ask how ANY computer related > > subject, shy of wireless networking, could be done at a BBQ!) > > Although I haven't asked Theo directly (but he's out there somewhere!), this > question did arise A few wireless laptops running VNC sessions from a host > which has Theo's slides (if he makes any) might do the trick. > > Last time we had a BBQ, about a dozen people showed up, so something like the > aforementioned might work in that case. If, however, about 30 people showed > up(!), this idea probably wouldn't work so well. I'm not sure if Doug (WLUG > BBQ host) has a 60" projection screen TV that he could connect to his laptop. > If we asked him, maybe he'd buy one for the occasion. :-) > > Later, > > Andy > > -- > Andy Stewart, Founder > Worcester Linux Users' Group > Worcester, MA USA > http://www.wlug.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Question about WLUG BBQ

by Wesley Allen

Andy, Did you guys set up WEP? I know it's "encryption-lite" but right now I've only my wlan setup with mac address locking only because I can't get wep to work at all. I actually had less trouble setting up wireless in linux than in windows! Speaking of "target practice," did any of you see that iMAC ad on e-reviews? The guy was at a target range, discussing the first iMAC and after saying how each feature was "not enough" he aimed and shot at it! Having dealt with first revision iMACS, I don't think I've ever laughed so hard! Wes On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 23:08, Andy Stewart wrote: > On Thursday 18 July 2002 10:26 pm, Wesley Allen wrote: > > I know I should just go to the site, but how was the last meeting? I > > was hoping to make this my first meeting but I ended up in a medical > > clinic with my 11 week old son instead (a 102.5 fever is NOT GOOD). > > He's doing well; I'm not. > > > > I'd like to come out, but I'd feel REALLY stupid coming to a BBQ for my > > first time; talk about bush league! > > HI Wes, > > I have 3 kids...I know what you mean, and one of them is only 7 weeks old. > The others are 6 yrs and 4 yrs. > > Come on over and meet WLUG and see if we're the kind of group that will > interest you. If we have the BBQ as stated, then you're more than welcome to > show up. If not, we'll just have our regular meeting in Kinnicutt Hall at > WPI, and you can still show up and be welcomed. :-) If you bring a > Microsoft box to the meeting for any purpose other than target practice, and > you won't be welcomed. Pretty simple, eh? :-) :-) > > I haven't posted anything on the WLUG website about our last meeting, but > here's how it went. I brought my new laptop with my wireless access point > and my wireless network card. Chuck Anderson brought his laptop, cat5 cable, > and his hub. We established a connection between the two computers and > showed the crowd how we did it. We did not prepare anything in advance, so > the 1 or 2 snags that we hit (and quickly fixed) ended up being more > realistic to the audience. Many folks commented that they liked this style > over the formal presentation style (which seldom says what to do when things > *don't* work). > > Later, > > Andy > > -- > Andy Stewart, Founder > Worcester Linux Users' Group > Worcester, MA USA > http://www.wlug.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

July 19, 2002

How to set "-dpi 100" for X with kdm

by Andy Stewart

HI all, When I start my SuSE 8.0 system in run level 3, it comes up in textmode. I log in and issue the startx command and KDE comes up. In my ~/.xserverrc file, I have put "-dpi 100" and the X server comes up in 100 dpi mode and I am a happy camper. Now, I think I'd like to have the graphical login from run level 5. kdm comes up with a nice screen, but the X server is only running at 75 dpi. I cannot figure out where to put the 100 dpi setting for this situation. It appears not to read the same files for the xdm/kdm method of starting the X server as it does when one types startx. So, how do I properly setup 100 dpi for kdm/xdm? Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Question about WLUG BBQ

by Andy Stewart

On Friday 19 July 2002 12:37 am, Bill Smith wrote: > Question: If Theo does his lecture on Anti-Spam stuff, how will that be > done at a BBQ? (of course, one could ask how ANY computer related > subject, shy of wireless networking, could be done at a BBQ!) Although I haven't asked Theo directly (but he's out there somewhere!), this question did arise A few wireless laptops running VNC sessions from a host which has Theo's slides (if he makes any) might do the trick. Last time we had a BBQ, about a dozen people showed up, so something like the aforementioned might work in that case. If, however, about 30 people showed up(!), this idea probably wouldn't work so well. I'm not sure if Doug (WLUG BBQ host) has a 60" projection screen TV that he could connect to his laptop. If we asked him, maybe he'd buy one for the occasion. :-) Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Question about WLUG BBQ

by Bill Smith

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 23:08:07 -0400 Andy Stewart <andystewart(a)attbi.com> wrote: AS> Come on over and meet WLUG and see if we're the kind of group that AS> will interest you. If we have the BBQ as stated, then you're more AS> than welcome to show up. If not, we'll just have our regular AS> meeting in Kinnicutt Hall at WPI, and you can still show up and be AS> welcomed. :-) If you bring a Microsoft box to the meeting for any AS> purpose other than target practice, and you won't be welcomed. AS> Pretty simple, eh? :-) :-) Question: If Theo does his lecture on Anti-Spam stuff, how will that be done at a BBQ? (of course, one could ask how ANY computer related subject, shy of wireless networking, could be done at a BBQ!) AS> I haven't posted anything on the WLUG website about our last AS> meeting, but here's how it went. I brought my new laptop with my AS> wireless access point and my wireless network card. Chuck Anderson AS> brought his laptop, cat5 cable, and his hub. We established a AS> connection between the two computers and showed the crowd how we did AS> it. We did not prepare anything in advance, so the 1 or 2 snags AS> that we hit (and quickly fixed) ended up being more realistic to the AS> audience. Many folks commented that they liked this style over the AS> formal presentation style (which seldom says what to do when things AS> *don't* work). that sounds like a great meeting. i wish i had made it. i like the idea of showing as you go. i've learned a lot from mistakes. i learn more when the mistakes are made by someone ELSE! ;) ttyl... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- William Smith wsmith-at-chezsmith-dot-com Fall River, MA http://www.chezsmith.com From a Marketing type: Don't give me any technical reason why something can't be done. If you really believed in the product, you'd make it work. * TAG! v3.0 *

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Question about WLUG BBQ

by Andy Stewart

On Thursday 18 July 2002 10:26 pm, Wesley Allen wrote: > I know I should just go to the site, but how was the last meeting? I > was hoping to make this my first meeting but I ended up in a medical > clinic with my 11 week old son instead (a 102.5 fever is NOT GOOD). > He's doing well; I'm not. > > I'd like to come out, but I'd feel REALLY stupid coming to a BBQ for my > first time; talk about bush league! HI Wes, I have 3 kids...I know what you mean, and one of them is only 7 weeks old. The others are 6 yrs and 4 yrs. Come on over and meet WLUG and see if we're the kind of group that will interest you. If we have the BBQ as stated, then you're more than welcome to show up. If not, we'll just have our regular meeting in Kinnicutt Hall at WPI, and you can still show up and be welcomed. :-) If you bring a Microsoft box to the meeting for any purpose other than target practice, and you won't be welcomed. Pretty simple, eh? :-) :-) I haven't posted anything on the WLUG website about our last meeting, but here's how it went. I brought my new laptop with my wireless access point and my wireless network card. Chuck Anderson brought his laptop, cat5 cable, and his hub. We established a connection between the two computers and showed the crowd how we did it. We did not prepare anything in advance, so the 1 or 2 snags that we hit (and quickly fixed) ended up being more realistic to the audience. Many folks commented that they liked this style over the formal presentation style (which seldom says what to do when things *don't* work). Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Question about WLUG BBQ

by Wesley Allen

I know I should just go to the site, but how was the last meeting? I was hoping to make this my first meeting but I ended up in a medical clinic with my 11 week old son instead (a 102.5 fever is NOT GOOD). He's doing well; I'm not. I'd like to come out, but I'd feel REALLY stupid coming to a BBQ for my first time; talk about bush league! Wes On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 21:02, Andy Stewart wrote: > > Hi WLUG, > > We had a suggestion last night over a few beers that perhaps we could conduct > our next Linux meeting in Shrewsbury over a few BBQd burgers, dogs, etc. > > What do people think of that idea? If this idea is accepted by enough folks, > it would be held on the same day and time as our next regularly scheduled > meeting. > > What do folks think of this proposal? > > Later, > > Andy > -- > Andy Stewart, Founder > Worcester Linux Users' Group > Worcester, MA USA > http://www.wlug.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] writing to tape

by doug waud

Brad Noyes wrote: > > 512 byte chucks. How do you get the byte size of a chuck? For example, if we pipe Homic and/or Anderson to chucksize what would the output be? doug

July 19, 2002

Question about WLUG BBQ

by Andy Stewart

Hi WLUG, We had a suggestion last night over a few beers that perhaps we could conduct our next Linux meeting in Shrewsbury over a few BBQd burgers, dogs, etc. What do people think of that idea? If this idea is accepted by enough folks, it would be held on the same day and time as our next regularly scheduled meeting. What do folks think of this proposal? Later, Andy -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA USA http://www.wlug.org

July 19, 2002

Re: [Wlug] writing to tape

by Brad Noyes

THANKS!!! the problem was solved by writing/reading in 512 byte chucks. I did try serveral different flags to open(), and they seemed to work. thanks chuck and michael, --brad On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 09:03:27PM -0400, Michael Frysinger wrote: > try to get rid of the O_TRUNC to see if it might help > <from `man dd`> > Often a tape drive will not accept arbitrarily sized blocks, > and dd would get an I/O error for the last fragment of data > that does not fill an entire block. Use `dd if=myfile of=/dev/mytape > conv=sync' to get everything on tape. Of course, reading it back > will now produce a slightly larger file, with nulls added at the end. > </from `man dd`> > -mike > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chuck Homic" <chuck(a)vvisions.com> > To: <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 8:46 PM > Subject: Re: [Wlug] writing to tape > > > > On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 08:36:16PM -0400, Brad Noyes wrote: > > > This program will work with a file, and a floppy device, but not a tape > > > device. > > > > > > can anyone give me some pointers? what do i have to do differently to > > > write to tape? > > > > I've never used tape before, but I know tape is not quite as ambidextrous > > as a file or floppy device. > > > > So, instead of O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, I'd try a simple O_WRONLY. Or > > other things. Maybe. > > > > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ > > Wlug mailing list > > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug

July 19, 2002

Thanks!

by Tim Trachimowicz

Hey folks! Thanks for multiple answers to my question. I ended up using Theo's solution: for i in *_x.*; do mv -f $i `echo $i | sed -e 's/_x././'`; done and it worked perfectly to get the job done. I've since been playing around with a few of the other suggestions to see what would work best next time I need to do soemthing similar. If anything, it's sparked my interest to learn more about shell scripting. Thanks again! --Tim

July 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Bash help

by Charles R. Anderson

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:04:40AM -0400, Josh Huber wrote: huber> And, here's yet another way of doing it, if you have mmv installed. huber> (mmv is cool!) huber> huber> $ mmv "*_x.*" "#1.#2" util-linux comes with "rename", which wil work IF the extension is always the same and there is only the one dot in the filename: rename '_x.' '.' *_x.* -- Charles R. Anderson <cra(a)wpi.edu> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886

July 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Bash help

by Frank Sweetser

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:04:40AM -0400, Josh Huber wrote: Bad Josh! you didn't post from the address you're subscribed with! no cookie for you... -- Frank Sweetser fs at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 18 Full-time WPI Network Engineer, Part time Linux/Perl guy | > I was wondering why the ext2fs filesystems was developed for Linux >rather than using the BSD4.4 Berkeley Fast Filesystem. Because it was a real fun to design and program it... -- Remy Card

July 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Bash help

by Josh Huber

Skip Gaede <sgaede(a)attbi.com> writes: > Here's yet another way of doing it, by using bash builtins: And, here's yet another way of doing it, if you have mmv installed. (mmv is cool!) $ mmv "*_x.*" "#1.#2" Also, mmv is pretty good about checking for stupid things, like trying to move all the files in a directory into 1 file. -- Josh Huber

July 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Bash help

by Skip Gaede

On Wednesday 17 July 2002 23:47, Tim Trachimowicz wrote: > Hey folks! > > I have a bunch of files on a server that are in the > format "filename_x.dat" and I need to rename them > "filename.dat", i.e. strip to last two characters off the > filename while maintaining the extension. > Here's yet another way of doing it, by using bash builtins: for _file in $(ls *_x.*); do _front=${_file%\_*} _back=${_file#*\.} mv $_file $_front.$_back done; The code may need to be tweaked slightly to deal with multiple underscores or multiple dots in the filename, and if they all end in .dat, then the logic is even simpler. --Skip

July 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Bash help

by Aaron Haviland

Scott Venier said: > for i in * ; do > mv $i `echo $i | sed 's/$.*$..\.$.*$/\1.\2/'` > done I realise it's probably of little concern when dealing with files, but some 1000 calls to sed vs. using a bash-builtin makes for a huge difference in speed: [orion@tribble(~)] TEXT="stuff to work with" [orion@tribble(~)] time for i in $(seq 1 1000); do OTHER=$(echo $TEXT | sed "s/work/goosnargh/g"); done; echo $OTHER real 0m19.405s user 0m5.010s sys 0m12.310s stuff to goosnargh with [orion@tribble(~)] time for i in $(seq 1 1000); do OTHER=${TEXT/work/goosnargh};done; echo $OTHER real 0m0.204s user 0m0.180s sys 0m0.000s stuff to goosnargh with there's quite a few other builtins that can almost replace sed and cut in most situations. look in bash's manpage under "Parameter Expansion" :) -- Aaron Haviland orion [at] tribble [dot] dyndns [dot] org orion [at] parsed [dot] net Can I get 1 bpm by flashing a mirror?

July 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Bash help

by Theo Van Dinter

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 08:47:35PM -0700, Tim Trachimowicz wrote: > I have a bunch of files on a server that are in the > format "filename_x.dat" and I need to rename them "filename.dat", i.e. > strip to last two characters off the filename while maintaining the > extension. Are they all "_x"? You could do something like: for i in *_x.*; do mv -f $i `echo $i | sed -e 's/_x././'`; done it would be more flexible to do in perl of course: opendir(T,".") || die "can't open dir:$!"; while($_=readdir(T)){ next unless ( -f $_ ); ($a,$b) = /^(.+)\.(.+)$/; next unless ( $a && $b ); $a =~ s/..$//; rename($_,"$a.$b"); } closedir(T); Warning: none of these have been tested, I just wrote them out so YMMV. -- Randomly Generated Tagline: "I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror placed over my kitchen table." - Rodney Dangerfield

July 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] Bash help

by Scott Venier

for i in * ; do mv $i `echo $i | sed 's/$.*$..\.$.*$/\1.\2/'` done Should do the trick... It moves each file to the original filename, minus the two characters before the last . As far as a book to get, _Learning the bash Shell, 2nd Edition_, published by o'reilly. Also likely useful _sed & awk, 2nd Edition_, also published by o'reilly. The sed book will translate that example of leaning toothpick syndrome. Scott On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Tim Trachimowicz wrote: > Hey folks! > > I have a bunch of files on a server that are in the > format "filename_x.dat" and I need to rename them "filename.dat", i.e. > strip to last two characters off the filename while maintaining the > extension. > > If it wasn't for the fact that I have about 400 files in multiple > directories, I'd do it by hand. However, it's of a somewhat urgent > nature - hence this slightly off-topic cry for help! =) > > I'm pretty sure there's a way to do it via a shell script (I use bash) - > the only problem being that I've never written one before. Can anyone > point me to a faq/tutorial/website that might explain the process? If > it's a trivial task, anyone care to take a stab? Google gave me a few > leads, but most aren't helping a lot. > > Any help is appreciated! Thanks! > > --Tim > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

July 18, 2002

Bash help

by Tim Trachimowicz

Hey folks! I have a bunch of files on a server that are in the format "filename_x.dat" and I need to rename them "filename.dat", i.e. strip to last two characters off the filename while maintaining the extension. If it wasn't for the fact that I have about 400 files in multiple directories, I'd do it by hand. However, it's of a somewhat urgent nature - hence this slightly off-topic cry for help! =) I'm pretty sure there's a way to do it via a shell script (I use bash) - the only problem being that I've never written one before. Can anyone point me to a faq/tutorial/website that might explain the process? If it's a trivial task, anyone care to take a stab? Google gave me a few leads, but most aren't helping a lot. Any help is appreciated! Thanks! --Tim

July 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] writing to tape

by Michael Frysinger

try to get rid of the O_TRUNC to see if it might help <from `man dd`> Often a tape drive will not accept arbitrarily sized blocks, and dd would get an I/O error for the last fragment of data that does not fill an entire block. Use `dd if=myfile of=/dev/mytape conv=sync' to get everything on tape. Of course, reading it back will now produce a slightly larger file, with nulls added at the end. </from `man dd`> -mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Homic" <chuck(a)vvisions.com> To: <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [Wlug] writing to tape > On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 08:36:16PM -0400, Brad Noyes wrote: > > This program will work with a file, and a floppy device, but not a tape > > device. > > > > can anyone give me some pointers? what do i have to do differently to > > write to tape? > > I've never used tape before, but I know tape is not quite as ambidextrous > as a file or floppy device. > > So, instead of O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, I'd try a simple O_WRONLY. Or > other things. Maybe. > > -Chuck > _______________________________________________ > Wlug mailing list > Wlug(a)mail.wlug.org > http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug >

July 18, 2002

Re: [Wlug] writing to tape

by Chuck Homic

On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 08:36:16PM -0400, Brad Noyes wrote: > This program will work with a file, and a floppy device, but not a tape > device. > > can anyone give me some pointers? what do i have to do differently to > write to tape? I've never used tape before, but I know tape is not quite as ambidextrous as a file or floppy device. So, instead of O_RDWR | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, I'd try a simple O_WRONLY. Or other things. Maybe. -Chuck

July 18, 2002