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From: dan@srs.UUCP (Dan Kegel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: A quick /etc/rmt question
Message-ID: <889@srs.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 88 14:49:19 GMT
References: <886@srs.UUCP>
Reply-To: srs!dan@cs.rochester.edu (Dan Kegel)
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In article <886@srs.UUCP> I wrote:
> I'm trying to manipulate a remote tape drive from within a program, and 
> /etc/rmt looks like just the ticket.  Unfortunately, I can't get it to
> work even from the shell.  Here's what I tried:
> ...
> What am I doing wrong?  Thanks for any (preferably e-mailed) replies.

I recieved two helpful replies (almost before I posted the article, even!-)

#1:
> From: parmelee@wayback.cs.cornell.edu (Larry Parmelee)
> There was a remote mag tape library posted a while back.  It seems
> like it would be just what you want.
>	Newsgroups: mod.sources
>	Subject: v07i091:  Remote magtape library for 4.3BSD
>	Date: 18 Dec 86 01:21:16 GMT
> The person who posted it was
>	Arnold Robbins
>	Emory University Computing Center
>	{ akgua, gatech }!emory!arnold

#2:
> From: matt@srs.uucp (Matt Goheen)
> How about "O/dev/rmt8".

Sure enough, omitting the space between the O and the device name fixed
the problem.  Sun's documentation is a little misleading here:
>    The protocol  is  comprised  of  the following commands (a space is
>    present between each token).
>     O device mode     Open the specified device using the indicated mode.

Thanks for the help, guys.
-- 
  Dan Kegel   "... earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it."  - Goethe: Faust
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