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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 'mt' options (of FreeBSD 1.1.5[.1])
Date: 17 Aug 1994 18:38:35 +0200
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athula@cs.keele.ac.uk (Athula Herath) writes:
>The SunOS 'mt' has an option called 'eom' -- end of media. I wonder
>whether there is any equivalent 'mt' available on FreeBSD (the one
>comes with the standard installation does not support this option)? I
>wonder whether this is something to do with the SCSI tape device
>driver?
That reminds me of one of my personal TODO items. Sorry, due to the
lack of spare time and reasonable IP connectivity, i didn't make this
go into FreeBSD 1.1.5.
I used to have some patches for hacking the st driver and the /sbin/st
utility to recognize the `eom' keyword. This is the best way for my
oldish Archive Viper 150 to append a file.
I gonna extract the patch and post it here...
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Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming:
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