Questions after I RTFM

[jamie]

The ftape HOWTO tells about installing and what kinds of drives are out
there, which is good, but what are the commands I type on the command line
to save and read from the tape drive? As a quickstart I put whatever I
want to archive in a gzipped tarball in temp and then write it to
/dev/tape using dd, but I have this sinking feeling I'm underexploiting my
equipment by doing it this way. 

Peace,
Jamie