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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:11:53 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: A few NITS about SCSI Tapes
Message-ID:  <199601112011.VAA12274@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199601111114.WAA02562@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at Jan 11, 96 10:14:27 pm

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As David Dawes wrote:
> 
> SunOS 4.x for example -- from the mt(1) man page:
> 
>      retension    Rewind the cartridge tape completely, then wind
>                   it  forward  to the end of the reel and back to
>                   beginning-of-tape to smooth out tape tension.

Ok.  I gonna rename it.

> While talking about mt, how difficult would it be to have 'mt status'
> behaviour similar to SunOS 4.x (in particular having it show the current
> file number)?

No idea on this.  Can you please send me the output of this command?

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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