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From: toivo@uniwa.uwa.oz.au (Toivo Pedaste)
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Subject: Appending to an Exabyte tape on a sun
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 18 Dec 90 11:33:22 GMT
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We have a Exabyte 8mm tape drive on a sun Sparcstation and would like to
be able to append files to the end of a tape without having to know how
many files that have been written already.

The eom function on mt seems to just skip to the physical end of tape and
then get an error.