On Jan 3, 2001, "Mirko Schlottke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I have to interpret the results of the tapetype command run
> with enabled compression ? Shouldn't there be more tape space
> available now, or does the compression not work ?
tapetype writes random data to the tape, to defeat any compression
algorithms. You should run tapetype with compression disabled, to
figure out the real amount of space, calculate how much you expect
your data to compress, then compute the estimated compressed length.
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