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In article <32F5DF70.2F2C_at_utk.edu>, Kirby, Joseph S. <kirby_at_utk.edu> wrote:
>Lou Avrami wrote:
>> Does anyone know how to advance a tape automatically via a
>> tar, cpio or any other UNIX archiving command? Am I doing something
>> wrong?
>
>Look at the ufsdump command. We have a 4 tape autoloader which selects
>the next tape when taken offline. The 'l' option if I recall.
>
Try mt. To find out more about tape in general try man -k tape.
If this command doesn't work get your Sys Admin to run either
catman -w or makewhatis (depends on the system)
hope this helps
Mark Rosenbaum Otey-Rosenbaum & Frazier, Inc. mjr_at_netcom.com Consultants in High Performance and (303) 727-7956 Scalable Computing and Applications POB 1397 ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/mj/mjr/resume/Boulder CO 80306 Received on Mon Feb 03 1997 - 00:00:00 CST
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