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diff --git a/share/man/man4/mtio.4 b/share/man/man4/mtio.4 index 9c32dc4939f..4be775d593b 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/mtio.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/mtio.4 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: mtio.4,v 1.8 2001/08/25 15:40:31 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: mtio.4,v 1.9 2001/10/05 14:45:53 mpech Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: mtio.4,v 1.4 1996/03/03 17:13:54 thorpej Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991 The Regents of the University of California. @@ -71,13 +71,15 @@ it will operate at 6250 .Pp The rewind devices automatically rewind when the last requested read, write or seek has finished, or the end of the tape -has been reached. The letter +has been reached. +The letter .Ql n is usually prepended to the name of the no-rewind devices. .Pp Unix tapes are written in multiples of 1024 byte block -records. Two end-of-file markers mark the end of a tape, and +records. +Two end-of-file markers mark the end of a tape, and one end-of-file marker marks the end of a tape file. If the tape is not to be rewound it is positioned with the head in between the two tape marks, where the next write |