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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!news.sesqui.net!uuneo.neosoft.com!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: patch for "mt" status command for SCSI tapes Distribution: comp Organization: Taronga Park BBS Message-ID: <Cwqpxo.Mz0@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <KSTAILEY.94Sep19192058@leidecker.std.com> <CwGM8y.H65@tfs.com> <PHILS.94Sep24222153@satori.tv.tek.com> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 1994 14:08:11 GMT Lines: 6 In article <CwGM8y.H65@tfs.com> julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes: > why would one want to use the 'mt' command for scsi tapes? Shouldn't there just be *one* command, so scripts don't have to ask "do you have a SCSI tape drive or a Wangtek?"? And shouldn't that one command be "mt" since that's what everyone else uses?