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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: mt retension?
Date: 13 Mar 1996 08:25:13 GMT
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brown@eff.org (Dan Brown) writes:
> Hows come there's now `retension' command in the mt program? Is this
> something that has been, or is going to be added in later releases?
MT(1) FreeBSD Reference Manual MT(1)
NAME
mt - magnetic tape manipulating program
SYNOPSIS
mt [-f tapename] command [count]
DESCRIPTION
[...]
retension Re-tension the tape (one full wind forth and back, Count is
ignored).
As you can see, the times, they are a-changin'... :)
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