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From: slh@gibdo.engr.washington.edu
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Subject: Re: RS/6000 Tape questions
Summary: dd -fskip=
Keywords: mt dd
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Date: 24 Apr 91 15:38:22 GMT
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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().
|Does AIX give you a command to manipulate the tape or shall I have to
|go write one myself?
|
	I think dd -fskip=2 would be equivalent.