RS/6000 Tape questions
Mark Brown
mbrown at testsys.austin.ibm.com
Thu Apr 25 04:50:32 AEST 1991
rtp1 at quads.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert) writes:
|Under AIX, the command "tctl" is the equivalent of "mt". It works,
|so far as I can tell. Don't ask me why they changed the name.
|
|I couldn't find this out via info explorer either. I had to ask my
|software engineer. It underscores that searching in info explorer
|is not as useful as it could be.
I think I'm responsible for this...the point was to take the many BSD commands
and put them into tctl (if they would logically go there) so that a user
would only have to look in one place to find tape control functions....
Perhaps a link to mt would be the best thing here....I'll look into it.
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