Re: How long does it take?

Gene Heskett wrote:

On Friday 20 September 2002 13:34, Neil wrote:

Does it really take long for tapetype to finish? I executed it and
still got no generated text after 15 mins. But I was seeing an
incrementing file(s).

On big, slow drives, it might take over a day to run.



Notice that the patched tapetype program I posted last week on this
list, gives you an estimate of the total run time after just a minute
or so.  (And it detects if your tape drive has hardware compression
on, a frequent mistake!)


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