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From: duncan@netcom.com (Donald K. Duncan)
Subject: Re: SCSI tape control?
Message-ID: <duncanC4trnI.6It@netcom.com>
Summary: read first then post
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
References: <52235@seismo.CSS.GOV> <duncanC4tr9K.5HL@netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1993 21:57:17 GMT
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In article <duncanC4tr9K.5HL@netcom.com>, duncan@netcom.com (Donald K. Duncan) writes:
> In article <52235@seismo.CSS.GOV>, black@seismo.CSS.GOV (Mike Black) writes:
> > I got my 1/4" 150Meg tape drive working, but now need to know how
> > to skip past the first file or more??  How do you specify either a
> > no-rewind device or is there an "mt" equivalent?
> 
> 
> You can grab mt from the gnu cpio-2.2.tar archive.  Works fine.

Sorry :)  try /dev/nrst0


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duncan@zycad.com (Donald Duncan)