Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site ccvaxa Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!zimmerm From: zimmerm@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Help Me #1 Message-ID: <2000034@ccvaxa> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 20:59:00 EST Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.2000034 Posted: Wed Nov 6 20:59:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 21:53:31 EST References: <2720@brl-tgr.ARPA> Lines: 12 Nf-ID: #R:brl-tgr.ARPA:2720:ccvaxa:2000034:000:452 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!zimmerm Nov 6 19:59:00 1985 It is only faster if the dump has created a very large table on the first tape which diminishes the amount of tape left for the dumped info itself. If this si the case then the odds are better that the info you want is on the second (third) tape. We never follow the last tape first suggestion and do just fine. I tried it in the past and it generally took longer. Bruce Zimmerman Gould CSD-Urbana Urbana, Ill. !ihnp4!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!zimmerm