Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote: > This thread has concentrated on fixing packages, but I would > appreciate a little insight into why someone might set TAPE in their > environment by default. Surely if you set it by default, you must > realse that you're asking any such invocation of tar to write over > your tape? Why would anyone do that? I suppose they might have set it for its effect on mt rather than on tar. -M-