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From: support@ism780c.isc.com (Support  account)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Tape retensioning
Message-ID: <37991@ism780c.isc.com>
Date: 10 Jan 90 18:27:09 GMT
References: <1990Jan6.063506.8670@actrix.co.nz> <6412@turnkey.gryphon.COM> <1990Jan9.133438.8417@virtech.uucp>
Reply-To: support@ism780c.UUCP (Support  account)
Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica CA
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In article <1990Jan9.133438.8417@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>In any case, Interactive should provide such a program.

Interactive is working on providing a command to retension, rewind,
seek eof etc. tapes. At present, these types of features are only
implemented via ioctl calls, as previous posters have indicated,
for both Wangtek type drives and SCSI tape devices.