From: utzoo!henry Newsgroups: hacknews Title: tape(1) rewind handling improved Article-I.D.: utzoo.2166 Posted: Mon Jun 14 17:23:22 1982 Received: Mon Jun 14 17:23:22 1982 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).