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From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: wangtek retensioning problems
Message-ID: <6847@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 12 Feb 90 07:29:05 GMT
References: <292@comcon.UUCP> <OMLCD2@geminix.UUCP> <1467@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
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In article <1467@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> wsinpdb@eutws1.win.tue.nl (Paul de Bra) writes:
<In article <OMLCD2@geminix.UUCP> gemini@netmbx.UUCP writes:
<>tim@comcon.UUCP (Tim Brown) writes:
<>
<>...
<>For erasing and retensioning tapes I wrote two simple programs that should
<>do the trick. I've tested them with the Wangtek 150 MB streamer model.
<>I've named them `wterase' and `wtretens'. Here they are:
<>...
<
<Amazing how much duplication of effort we see for such a simple problem.
<
<The real and simple solution is to use the tapecntl(1) command:
<
<tapecntl [ -etrw ] [ -p arg ]
<
<where e=erase, t=retension, r=reset device, w=rewind tape and p[n]=
<position tape to n-th end-of-file mark.
<

OK: thanks for the erasing and retensions substitutes for the
tapecntl functions.  Now, can someone contribute a "move to n-th
end-of-file mark program," a clone of tapecntl -p <num>, please?

Thank you.

keith (why is tapecntl buried in /usr/lib/tape, anyway?) ericson