henry (06/15/82)
Fixed tape(1) to explicitly check whether the tape device is openable before it fires up tar. If it's not, tape now produces a reasonably intelligible message, mentioning the possibility that the tape is still rewinding (the usual cause of unopenability).
david@utzoo.UUCP (David Trueman) (08/01/84)
Inspired by this morning's discovery of bigcal(1) not echoing onto stderr, I did a systematic scan of the shell files in /bin, looking for similar behaviour. I found and fixed lorder(1), newuser(1) and tape(1). Other offenders are several Mistress files and postnews(1) but I decided to leave these alone. -- David Trueman @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!david