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Diffstat (limited to 'bin/mt/mt.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/mt/mt.1 | 33 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/bin/mt/mt.1 b/bin/mt/mt.1 index 26ea4e4e92f..42b1bb8fc63 100644 --- a/bin/mt/mt.1 +++ b/bin/mt/mt.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mt.1,v 1.17 2003/02/26 18:33:18 tedu Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mt.1,v 1.18 2003/03/14 15:00:56 jmc Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: mt.1,v 1.8 1996/05/21 10:23:55 mrg Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1981, 1990, 1993 @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ .Nd magnetic tape and removable media manipulating program .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm mt -.Op Fl f Ar tapename +.Op Fl f Ar device .Ar command .Op Ar count .Nm eject @@ -60,18 +60,33 @@ Operations may be performed multiple times by specifying .Ar count . Note that -.Ar tapename +.Ar device must reference a raw (not block) tape device. If -.Ar tapename +.Ar device is of the form -.Dq host:tapename +.Dq host:device or -.Dq user@host:tapename , +.Dq user@host:device , .Nm writes to the named tape device on the remote host using .Xr rmt 8 . .Pp +The options are as follows: +.Pp +.Bl -tag -width Ds +.It Fl f Ar device +Operate on the +.Ar device +specified. +.El +.Pp +If the +.Fl f +flag is passed to +.Nm eject , +it is silently ignored. +.Pp The available commands are listed below. Only as many characters as are required to uniquely identify a command need be specified. @@ -139,6 +154,10 @@ does not exist, .Nm uses the device .Pa /dev/rst0 . +The +.Ev TAPE +variable is ignored by +.Nm eject . .Pp .Nm returns a 0 exit status when the operation(s) were successful, @@ -153,7 +172,7 @@ checks the .Ev TAPE environment variable if the argument -.Ar tapename +.Ar device is not given. .El .Sh FILES |