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From: hubler@galaxy.lerc.nasa.gov (Dale Hubler)
Subject: Re: RS/6000 Tape questions
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.152922.20686@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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Reply-To: hubler@galaxy.lerc.nasa.gov (Dale Hubler)
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References: <1991Apr22.195656.10564@panix.uucp>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 15:29:22 GMT

In article <1991Apr22.195656.10564@panix.uucp> eravin@panix.uucp (Ed Ravin) writes:
>1) Under SUN OS 3, there's a handy dandy utility called "mt" which lets you
>skip ahead or back on a tape with several files written on it.  For example,
>
># mt fsf 2
>
>Would skip forward 2 file marks on the tape.  But a peek through Info
>Intruder revealed only the device driver interface to do same via ioctl().



Look in info explorer for the tctl command.  Why they didn't make this
named mt or set up as a link escapes me.  Must be a difference between
BSD and SYS V.  I was looking for mt for a while also.



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