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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Reading tapes
Message-ID: <12811@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 8 May 90 19:11:25 GMT
References: <2653@ariel.unm.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory
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In article <2653@ariel.unm.edu> cwayne@hydra.unm.edu (Chris Wayne SCONS) writes:
>     I'm looking for a program and/or technique that can read past EOF flags
>on tape, for the sole purpose of reading the data that 'was' on the tape.

Common UNIX practice is simply to use the non-rewinding device; it
leaves the drive positioned after the tape mark.  1/2" magtapes use
two consecutive tape marks to indicate end of volume, but all you
have to do is read past the second one the same way (non-rewinding).