RS/6000 Tape questions

[slh at gibdo.engr.washington.edu]

In article <1991Apr22.195656.10564 at panix.uucp> eravin at panix.uucp (Ed Ravin) writes:
|1) Under SUN OS 3, there's a handy dandy utility called "mt" which lets you
|skip ahead or back on a tape with several files written on it.  For example,
|
|# mt fsf 2
|
|Would skip forward 2 file marks on the tape.  But a peek through Info
|Intruder revealed only the device driver interface to do same via ioctl().
|Does AIX give you a command to manipulate the tape or shall I have to
|go write one myself?
|
	I think dd -fskip=2 would be equivalent.