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From: eravin@panix.uucp (Ed Ravin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: RS/6000 Tape questions
Summary: an mt solution
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.173821.881@panix.uucp>
Date: 24 Apr 91 17:38:21 GMT
References: <1991Apr22.195656.10564@panix.uucp> <1991Apr23.152922.20686@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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In article <mumble@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> hubler@galaxy.lerc.nasa.gov
(Dale Hubler) writes:

>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.

Thanks, and thanks to the other handful of people who either posted or
mailed me the answer.  The real problem here is not what they call it,
but that "tctl" is not cross-referenced anywhere. The obvious place would
be in the "rmt" section in Special Files.  Less obvious would be the
"dd" command, the "backup" command, etc.  To give you an idea how
bad the indexes are in IBM's manuals, in Special Files, there's not even
any entries for "Tape" in the index, just "rmt".  Unix from any other
vendor always has the "permuted index" -- not the best way of doing things,
but at least all the information is there.

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