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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Tape retensioning
Message-ID: <1990Jan9.133438.8417@virtech.uucp>
Date: 9 Jan 90 13:34:38 GMT
References: <1990Jan6.063506.8670@actrix.co.nz> <6412@turnkey.gryphon.COM>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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In article <6412@turnkey.gryphon.COM>, jackv@turnkey.gryphon.COM (Jack F. Vogel) writes:
>  
> Well, AT&T's FM does indeed contain a man page for this command, but as far
> as I can tell ISC doesn't ship the thing so Paul's complaint stands. Could
> someone at ISC comment, just what is a user in that situation supposed to do??

I couldn't find the tapecntl command either.  However I did find an "mt"
command which seems to be the program you want.  However, even though a 
strings of /bin/mt shows the commands: retension, rewind, fsf, etc., the use
of any of these commands always results in a "command not available" or a
"command not recognized".  

So it looks like the original poster is correct: If you need to perform one
of these operations you must write a program to do it yourself.  However,
I have been using 1/4" cartridge tapes for almost 3 years and haven't had
a need to do any of these.

In any case, Interactive should provide such a program.

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