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From: alex@pc.cc.cmu.edu (alex wetmore)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: [2.0] Where is the 'st' command?
Date: 21 Jan 1995 19:46:13 GMT
Organization: Phred Networking
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Robert Schien (robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de) wrote:
> I wanted to read tapes written under FreeBSD 1.0 with
> my Archive 2525 SCSI 500MB tape drive. It complained
> about a bad blocksize or so. Now, I tried to play
> with the 'st' utility, but it's not there :-(
> 'mt' and 'ft' are there, but 'st' is missing.
> Has the name of this tool changed?

I had the same problem with NetBSD so I got the source for st and 
recompiled it.  I will make the source available on my machine 
(ftp.phred.org) if that is helpful to anyone.  It is in 
/pub/BSD/st.tar.gz.

alex