[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Bob Koehler]

In article <pkfepf$q7d$2 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
> 
> But you might have had other use cases that I just can't think of. (Lack 
> of imagination on my part... :-) )
> 

   Future reference for which tape drives I should try, without doing so
   again by trail and error, perhaps.  In any case, on UNIX, it's an
   example of information I cannot get from open/read/write/close.