portable `rewind' for tape devices

[Bruce R. Larson]

In article <16081 at bfmny0.BFM.COM>, tneff at bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes:
>
> To rewind:
>
> 	:</dev/tape
> 
> To advance:
> 
> 	:</dev/ntape
> 
> but keep in mind that the specific device names vary according to
> vendor.  (I.e. here it's /dev/rmt/c0s0 and /dev/rmt/c0s0n.)
>
Not only was my rewind overkill, but it had a problem with SCSI tape
drives.  Your's is much nicer.

Thanks for sharing it.

Bruce

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