Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!bingvaxu!sunybcs!oswego!stjohn From: stjohn@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Paul R. Taylor) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Seeking on a Tape Drive Keywords: help Message-ID: <1171@oswego.Oswego.EDU> Date: 3 Apr 89 18:54:22 GMT Reply-To: stjohn@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Dave St. John) Distribution: comp Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY Oswego, Oswego NY Lines: 19 I'm trying to write a program that will perform a seek operation on a tape drive. I have looked in mtio.h (on Ultirx 3.0) at the MTIOCTOP ioctl and I have tried the forward/backward space record operation without success. I was wondering if anyone had written a program like this or have any ideas that could help. Thanks in advance Dave St. John --------------------------------------------------------------------------- UUCP: {your favorite backbone}!oswego!stjohn INTERNET: stjohn@oswego.oswego.edu (129.3.1.1) US Mail: Dave St. John Instructional Computing Center SUNY College at Oswego Oswego, N.Y. 13126 Armadillo: to provide weapons to Spanish pickles ---------------------------------------------------------------------------