[hacknews] tape

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.
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				David Trueman @ U of Toronto Zoology
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