136 lines
3.7 KiB
Groff
136 lines
3.7 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1981, 1990, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\" must display the following acknowledgement:
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.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
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.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
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.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" @(#)mt.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
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.\"
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.Dd June 6, 1993
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.Dt MT 1
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.Os BSD 4
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm mt
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.Nd magnetic tape manipulating program
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm mt
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.Op Fl f Ar tapename
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.Ar command
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.Op Ar count
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm Mt
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is used to give commands to a magnetic tape drive.
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By default
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.Nm mt
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performs the requested operation once. Operations
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may be performed multiple times by specifying
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.Ar count .
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Note
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that
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.Ar tapename
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must reference a raw (not block) tape device.
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.Pp
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The available commands are listed below. Only as many
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characters as are required to uniquely identify a command
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need be specified.
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.Bl -tag -width "eof, weof"
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.It Cm eof , weof
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Write
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.Ar count
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end-of-file marks at the current position on the tape.
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.It Cm fsf
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Forward space
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.Ar count
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files.
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.It Cm fsr
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Forward space
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.Ar count
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records.
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.It Cm bsf
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Back space
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.Ar count
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files.
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.It Cm bsr
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Back space
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.Ar count
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records.
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.It Cm rewind
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Rewind the tape
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(Count is ignored).
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.It Cm offline , rewoffl
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Rewind the tape and place the tape unit off-line
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(Count is ignored).
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.It Cm erase
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Erase the tape
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(Count is ignored).
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.It Cm status
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Print status information about the tape unit.
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.El
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.Pp
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If a tape name is not specified, and the environment variable
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.Ev TAPE
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does not exist;
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.Nm mt
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uses the device
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.Pa /dev/rmt12 .
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.Pp
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.Nm Mt
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returns a 0 exit status when the operation(s) were successful,
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1 if the command was unrecognized, and 2 if an operation failed.
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.Sh ENVIRONMENT
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If the following environment variable exists, it is utilized by
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.Nm mt .
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.Bl -tag -width Fl
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.It Ev TAPE
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.Nm Mt
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checks the
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.Ev TAPE
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environment variable if the
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argument
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.Ar tapename
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is not given.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /dev/rmt* -compact
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.It Pa /dev/rmt*
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Raw magnetic tape interface
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.\".Xr mtio 4 ,
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.Xr dd 1 ,
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.Xr ioctl 2 ,
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.Xr environ 7
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm mt
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command appeared in
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.Bx 4.3 .
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.Pp
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Erase function added by Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> 10/94.
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.\" mt.1: mtio(4) missing
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