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From: mbrown@testsys.austin.ibm.com (Mark Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: RS/6000 Tape questions
Summary: mea culpa
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Date: 24 Apr 91 18:50:32 GMT
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rtp1@quads.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert) writes:
|Under AIX, the command "tctl" is the equivalent of "mt".  It works,
|so far as I can tell.  Don't ask me why they changed the name.
|
|I couldn't find this out via info explorer either.  I had to ask my
|software engineer.  It underscores that searching in info explorer
|is not as useful as it could be.  

I think I'm responsible for this...the point was to take the many BSD commands
and put them into tctl (if they would logically go there) so that a user
would only have to look in one place to find tape control functions....

Perhaps a link to mt would be the best thing here....I'll look into it.

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