dds-dd(1) General Commands Manual dds-dd(1)NAME
dds-dd - tool to read a dds device.
SYNOPSIS
dds-dd [ -f device ]
DESCRIPTION
dds-dd reads a dds tape devices (DAT). Every block is read and written to stdout. A tape with unknown block size or blocks of different
size can be read.
The default device is /dev/rmt0, which may be overridden with the environment variable TAPE, which in turn may be overridden with the
-f device option. The device must be a character special file.
OPTIONS -f device
Device of the tape archive (default is /dev/rmt0). Must be a character special file connected to a dds tape device.
-V,--version
Print the version number of mt-dds to stderr and exit immediately.
--help print some screens of online help with examples through a pager and exit immediately.
EXAMPLES
Example: Read the tape and make a listing:
dds-dd | tar ft -
Example: Read the tape and make a listing:
dds-dd | cpio -it
ENVIRONMENT
The environment variable TAPE overrides the default tape device /dev/rmt0.
SEE ALSO
dds2tar(1), dds2index(1), mt(1), tar(1)HISTORY
This program was created to use it in conjunction with dds2tar.
AUTHOR
J"org Weule (weule@cs.uni-duesseldorf.de), Phone +49 211 751409. This software is available at ftp.uni-duesseldorf.de:/pub/unix/apollo
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MT(1) General Commands Manual MT(1)NAME
mt - magnetic tape manipulating program
SYNOPSIS
mt [ -f tapename ] command [ count ]
DESCRIPTION
Mt is used to give commands to a magnetic tape drive. If a tape name is not specified, the environment variable TAPE is used; if TAPE
does not exist, mt uses the device /dev/rmt12. Note that tapename must reference a raw (not block) tape device. By default mt performs
the requested operation once. Operations may be performed multiple times by specifying count.
The available commands are listed below. Only as many characters as are required to uniquely identify a command need be specified.
eof, weof
Write count end-of-file marks at the current position on the tape.
fsf Forward space count files.
fsr Forward space count records.
bsf Back space count files.
bsr Back space count records.
rewind Rewind the tape (Count is ignored).
offline, rewoffl
Rewind the tape and place the tape unit off-line (Count is ignored).
status Print status information about the tape unit.
cacheon
Enable the readahead/writebehind cache on the tape unit.
cacheoff
Turn off the readahead/writebehind cache on the tape unit.
Mt returns a 0 exit status when the operation(s) were successful, 1 if the command was unrecognized, and 2 if an operation failed.
The cacheon and cacheoff commands currently only apply to the TMSCP driver and then only for certain drives such as the TU81+. No error is
produced by the TMSCP driver if the cache commands are used. Other drivers will return an error code since they do not recognize the
MTCACHE and MTNOCACHE functions codes. See mtio(4).
FILES
/dev/rmt* Raw magnetic tape interface
SEE ALSO mtio(4), tmscp(4), dd(1), ioctl(2), environ(7)4th Berkeley Distribution December 22, 1995 MT(1)
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