The Ftape Tools Manual - Introduction
ftape-tools is a collection of utilities that might be useful in
conjunction with the ftape floppy tape device driver for Linux. As far as
I know none of the utilities is actually required to use the floppy tape
driver, as ftape provides a pretty standard Unix like tape device
interface. However, if you want to use special ftape specific ioctls
(see Ftmt, see Ftformat, see Vtblc) or run into certain
problems when trying to load the driver (see Swapout) you might be
better off when using the programs provided in this package. Also, there
is a small collection of patches and tips and tricks for commonly used
backup programs contains in subdirectories under the `contrib/
'
(See Contrib) subdirectory.
All compiled programs of this distribution show a banner of the
following form when run with the --version
.
root@anaxagoras:claus# PROGRAM --version PROGRAM (ftape-tools) 1.08
where PROGRAM is a place holder for the program you are
running. This kind of uniform --version
option allows to
distinguish the programs supplied in this package from their older
counter parts that have the same name.
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