Oh, I suppose CD burners are like that too, at least mine, the instructions say it needs a constant stream of data coming to it via the USB port, so recording live might not work, if I let too much silence get in. I wonder if buffering programs might work? gfor say "arecord | dd bs=1K of=/dev/tape" At 01:30 AM 2/19/01 -0600, you wrote: >Brent, > >A tape drive is not just like a disk drive. It requires data at a constant >rate. If you vary the rate, you don't get good results. It works fine for >backing up as intended. It won't work for what you are trying. > >======= >Kirk Wood >Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net > >Nothing is hard if you know the answer or are used to doing it. > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >
