Claus-Justus Heine (claus@math1.rwth-aachen.de)
31 Aug 1998 11:38:05 +0200
I'd like to announce the ftape tool's collection revision 1.07.
ftape is a floppy tape device driver for Linux.
ftape-tools-1.07 is a collection of more or less useful utilities for
ftape.
The packages contains
ftmt -- modified GNU mt version which knows about ftape-3.x/ftape-4.x
non-standard ioctl calls
ftformat -- program to format floppy tape cartridges with ftape.
vtblc -- utility to manipulate the volume table of a floppy tape
cartridges.
swapout -- memory de-fragmentation program. Sometimes needed when
ftape can't allocate its DMA buffers.
listtape -- Perl script to list the contents of a floppy tape cartridge
ftape-tool -- Tcl/Tk front end to the utilities listed above.
It is planned that the "contrib/" subdirectory of the distribution
contains tips, tricks and patches for various backup programs for use
with ftape. At the moment there is a single patch for the KBackup
program.
The package comes with pre-formatted documentation in info, html and text
format.
Changes in release 1.07
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Reading and modifying the volume table with the Tcl/Tk frontend
"ftape-tool" was broken in previous versions. This should have been
fixed now.
Download
~~~~~~~~
a) From my web page:
http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/ftape/archives.html
b) From sunsite (not yet):
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/tapes/
Regards
Claus
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