tcopy(1) (was Re: 1/4 inch cartridge tape drives & tar)
Paul V. O'Neill
pvo1478 at oce.orst.edu
Thu Feb 23 05:23:11 AEST 1989
> Fine, but what if you *forget* how many files are on the tape (ok, lose
> the paper it's written down on :-)), or worse yet, replace a tar with a.....
Oh, come on!! A tape that is unlabeled is worthless.
This brings up a pet peeve of mine about 4.0. tcopy(1) is brain-dead. It
would be so nice if it worked as described in the man page.
When only a source drive is specified, tcopy scans the tape,
and displays information about the sizes of records and tape
files. If a destination is specified, tcopy makes a copies (sic) ....
I've tried all kinds of redirects but it always spews the entire contents
of argument 1 (source tape) to the screen. (4/110, /dev/nrst8, SunOS 4.0)
Has anyone been able to get tcopy to just list the summary?? Then if you
"*forget* how many files...." you could just tcopy(1) it.
Paul O'Neill pvo at oce.orst.edu
Coastal Imaging Lab
OSU--Oceanography
Corvallis, OR 97331 503-754-3251
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