[Info-vax] The (now lost) future of Alpha.

[Chris]

On 08/06/18 19:23, Johnny Billquist wrote:

>
> The C library is good when you want to do basic, simple things. Tapes
> are not among the basic, simple things under Unix.
>
> Johnny
>

Most unices have the mt command, which you can use to navigate around
tapes prior to reading from or writing to them. dd is also useful for
recovering or writing new data and there are loads of options. Have
always found tapes to be pretty well covered, both reel to reel and
various cartridge drives...

Chris