mag-tape - unix magnetic tape utilities
Copyright (c) 1991 Peter Miller.
All rights reserved.



'mag-tape' is a collection of magnetic tape utilities
for unix.

To build 'mag-tape', just type "make".

In order for the remote tape accessing functionality to work,
the make should be run by root, or the chown commands run
separately by root.  The rshd port is privileged.

After make has finished, you may like to use "make sure" to run the tests.
Mount a scratch tape first.  The default device for the tests
is /dev/rmt0.  This can be changed by setting the TAPE environment variable
before running the tests.  (The TAPE environment variable must be
a local device, because the remote device tests use localhost:$TAPE.)

If the commands are not set-uid-root, the remote functionality tests will fail.

These commands are written in ansi C,
so you will definitely need gcc on a Sun.
You may also need to copy <sys/ioccom.h> into /usr/local/lib/gcc-include
and repair it, because it uses old-style 'x' #define replacements.




This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
any later version.

This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
It should be in th COPYING file.