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#168314- tar for NT Tape Drives Message #169030

From: Thomas G Sullivan WinNT Forum · General Discussion February 28, 1994 2:35 PM

Thanks John. 'tar' on NT must be a subject whose time has come. Also keep me posted as to what you find. BTW, do you know what name to access a tape device with under NT? Thanks….Tom 1: Well, there's \\.\tape0 as one guess. But I think that 2: requires…

tar for NT Tape Drives Message #167346

From: Thomas G Sullivan WinNT Forum · General Discussion February 23, 1994 6:17 PM

Does anyone have a tar utility that works on NT tape drives? I have gtar, available over in Win32 SDK (I ftp'd mine), but it appears to have no way to access the Tape device (I have an Archive QIC150). In the registry, the archive entry has a Device Name…