Re: a bit off topic (mt command)

2002-07-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 05:31, Paul Bijnens wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 22 July 2002 16:25, Eduardo Ceva wrote: >>>Hi, wich command of mt writes to the tape??? thanks a lot!!! >>> >>>ceva >> >> AFAIK, no command from mt except a rewind (if there is unwritten >> data still in the drive

Re: a bit off topic (mt command)

2002-07-23 Thread Paul Bijnens
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 22 July 2002 16:25, Eduardo Ceva wrote: > >>Hi, wich command of mt writes to the tape??? thanks a lot!!! >> >>ceva > > > AFAIK, no command from mt except a rewind (if there is unwritten > data still in the drives buffer) will cause any data to goto the > tape m

Re: a bit off topic (mt command)

2002-07-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 July 2002 16:25, Eduardo Ceva wrote: >Hi, wich command of mt writes to the tape??? thanks a lot!!! > >ceva AFAIK, no command from mt except a rewind (if there is unwritten data still in the drives buffer) will cause any data to goto the tape medium. 'mt' is an adjusting tool, and

Re: a bit off topic (mt command)

2002-07-22 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 22 Jul 2002 at 5:25pm, Eduardo Ceva wrote > Hi, wich command of mt writes to the tape??? thanks a lot!!! There isn't one, really. mt is for tape and tape drive manipulation. If you just want to write to a tape, try dump or tar. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineer

a bit off topic (mt command)

2002-07-22 Thread Eduardo Ceva
Hi, wich command of mt writes to the tape??? thanks a lot!!!   ceva