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From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim)
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Subject: Skipping Files on Magtape
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Date: Tue, 21-Apr-87 15:59:22 EST
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   I believe the `proper' way to skip a file is to use the magtape ioctls:
   `mt -f /dev/rmt4 fsf'.  Obviously this will not work on systems without
   such ioctls.  (So it goes.)

TPC does this by `echo Skipping Tape File < /dev/rmt0' or similar means.

   In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690)
   UUCP:	seismo!mimsy!chris	ARPA/CSNet:	chris@mimsy.umd.edu

	(Root Boy) Jim "Just Say Yes" Cottrell	<rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>
Is he the MAGIC INCA carrying a FROG on his shoulders?? Is the FROG
his GUIDELIGHT?? It is curious that a DOG runs already on the ESCALATOR...